# Manu B.

> Staff Engineer at Equinix

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/manu

Network Observability & Streaming Platform: Led a team in architecting and building a scalable distributed system for real-time event and metric streaming. Planned and managed sprints and releases for the platform, which includes integrations with major services and AI-powered smart alerting.

Product Development: Equinix Fabric Cloud Router (FCR): Led the development of the distributed backend services for the FCR, a flagship product that became the company's fastest-growing offering. Built the core CRUD APIs, implemented logic to provision physical network hardware, and developed Terraform providers for full automation.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer | Distributed Systems & Observability Platforms @ Equinix
Jan 2020 – Present | Redwood City, CA
Tech: Java, Go, Python, Spring, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch (ELK), Kafka/Event Streaming, Terraform, Kubernetes, Cloud APIs.

Distributed Observability & Telemetry Platform:

Architected and built a customer-facing, distributed observability platform for real-time ingestion, processing, and fan-out delivery of high-volume metrics and events across global infrastructure.
	•	Designed scalable telemetry pipelines with support for high-cardinality data, partial failures, retries, and backpressure.
	•	Implemented multi-sink fan-out delivery to heterogeneous consumers including Datadog, Splunk, PagerDuty, and custom webhooks.
	•	Owned API design, data models, and reliability guarantees for event streaming and subscription workflows.
	•	Led integration of CloudEvents-based schemas for extensibility and interoperability.

🔗 https://docs.equinix.com/observability/
🔗 https://github.com/equinix/equinix-cloudevents

Autonomous & Intelligent Operations (AI/ML Initiatives):

Contributed to early-stage intelligent alerting and automation initiatives, integrating ML models and agents to improve signal quality, anomaly detection, and operational efficiency.
	•	Partnered with data science teams on model-driven alerting pipelines.
	•	Designed system interfaces to support future autonomous control loops for infrastructure operations.

Distributed Control Plane – Fabric Cloud Router (FCR):

Led the development of core backend services powering FCR, a globally distributed, multi-cloud platform and one of Equinix’s fastest-growing products.
	•	Built and scaled control-plane microservices responsible for lifecycle management, state reconciliation, and API-driven provisioning.
	•	Designed idempotent APIs, data models, and workflows supporting multi-cloud connectivity across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
	•	Led development of Terraform providers and external-facing APIs to enable programmatic adoption by customers.

🔗 https://docs.equinix.com/en-us/Content/Interconnection/FCR/FCR-intro.htm

### Software Engineer @ Cyral
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Redwood City, California, United States
"Cyral is the first cloud-native Security as Code solution to protect the modern Data Layer."

As a software engineer, my work included contributions to Database security layer, Cloud Infrastructure, APIs and Backend Microservices development in Golang.

Tech - Python, TypeScript, Node.js, Golang, Kubernetes, ETCD, Docker, AWS, GCP, SQL/NoSQL, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Filebeat.

### Senior MTS @ Instart Logic Inc
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Designed and implemented high-volume, fault-tolerant, scalable backend services for CDN, Web Performance and Security products.
Tech - Python, TypeScript, Node.js, PrestoDB, Elasticsearch, LUA, PostgreSQL, Redis, WAF, Bot Detection, Nginx.

### MTS, Software Engineer @ Instart Logic Inc
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Performance and Tools Engineering
Developed web performance benchmarking, monitoring and alerting tools using Python,Flask, Node.js, Docker, PostgreSQL, Nginx, LUA.

### Graduate Student Assistant, Office of Information Technology @ The University of Texas at Arlington
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Arlington, Texas

### Systems Engineer @ Microland Limited
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014
Cloud Infrastructure tools development and deployment


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Computer Science
The University of Texas at Arlington

### Bachelor’s Degree in Information Science and Engineering
Visvesvaraya Technological University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/manubhat
- Website: http://manubhats.github.io/

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Last updated: 2026-03-22