# Lokesh Amarnani

> Staff Software Engineer at eBay

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/lokeshamarnani

With over a decade of experience in software development, my expertise lies in backend infrastructure and services, systems engineering and design. This includes full life-cycle software processes like testing, debugging, maintenance and enhancements.

I'm passionate about learning new technologies, and building systems that are robust and adaptable.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ eBay
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Nutanix
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Member of Technical Staff @ VMware
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto, CA
•Disaster recovery for hybrid cloud – Managed the life-cycle of data protection services to establish trust between the on-premise and cloud control planes, thus enabling workload backups in selected AWS regions.
•VMware cloud on AWS – Developed the web service backend for an on-demand service (SDDCaaS) that enables customers to run vSpherebased applications on AWS. This achieved seamless migration of workloads from the on-premise data center to the public cloud (Java on Spring Framework).
•NSX transformers – Co-led the design, development and deployment of a plugin module that enabled the hot upgrade of cloud gateways and other control plane VMs in the customer SDDCs while minimizing traffic loss (Java, C++, Python).
•Developed a tool to automate spinning up a developer environment, accessing component VMs in the cloud. This improved development efficiency by more than 30 per cent.

### Software Engineer III @ Cisco Systems
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 | San Jose, CA
•Switch Abstraction Interface – Developed SAI layer, a standardized set of APIs as part of software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) effort for Microsoft Azure for Nexus line of datacenter switches (C, C++).
•Data plane forwarding – Designed and developed Layer 2, Layer 3 and application layer features for the packet forwarding engine for Nexus line of datacenter switches (C, C++, Python).


## Education
### Master of Science (MS) in Electrical Engineering (Computer Networking)
University of Southern California

### Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Electronics and Telecommunication
University of Mumbai


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lokesh-amarnani

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Last updated: 2026-04-12