# Megha  Shedligeri

> Staff Software Engineer at VMware

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

Experienced Staff Software Engineer with a proven track record in designing and implementing control path features for large scale distributed systems. Specialize in API workflows, storage management, and configuration management features consumed by customers in their data centers, public cloud, and at the edge.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ VMware
Jan 2020 – Present | United States
-  Part of VMware vSAN control path team. vSAN is an enterprise-class distributed storage system. It provides a hyperconverged infrastructure to reduce operational cost and enables efficient use of storage resources.
-  Responsible for the control path features for vSAN. It involves focus on API workflows, storage management, configuration management etc., in a distributed environment.
-  Lead an effort to design a new and improved vSAN storage stack to provide improved performance and operational efficiency. Primarily focusing on the control plane design and implementation of configuration of the storage layout.
-  Part of the early engineering team that developed a scalable snapshot manager for local protection from ransomware attacks and safeguarding against accidental data loss.-

### Member Of Technical Staff @ Nutanix
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Part of Nutanix Manageability Platform team, responsible for microservices in virtual infrastructure and cloud scale API.
Some of my key contributions:
- Orchestration for Control plane Microservices Platform (CMSP) on Nutanix Multicluster manager (PC) for enablement and deployment of CMSP on Nutanix Multicluster manager
- MultiVdisk support for Nutanix Multicluster manager
- Resource management for Nutanix Multicluster entity

### Senior Software Engineer @ Citrix
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Bengaluru Area, India
Was integral part of team responsible for first cloud release of Citrix Management and Analytics System. 
Developed features for both on-premise as well as cloud solution hosted on AWS.
Some of the key contributions are:
- Multi-tenancy feature of cloud release
- Online Backup/Restore functionality using Postgres continuous archival
- Infrastructure for CPX instances using docker container apis
- Evergreen upgrades for agent VMs on customer premises using cloud service
- High availability and disaster recovery systems for on-prem solution
- Forward proxy authentication support for customer VMs connecting to cloud services

### Software Engineer II @ Cisco
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Bengaluru Area, India
- New enhancements for application layer protocols, HTTP and HTTPS for IOS and IOS-XE releases of Cisco routers and switches
- Security features such as support for X-XSS protection headers, X Frame options for IOS/IOS-XE 
NGINX support for IOS-XE release across access and edge routers/switches
- Integration support for SSL versions, TSL 1.0/1.1/1.2 for Cisco IOS-XE HTTPS client and server

### Graduate  Intern Technical @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Bengaluru Area, India
- Lane departure warning system prototype - Designed mathematical model for real time image processing
- The project received ‘Above and Beyond’ recognition at the final presentation.

### Graduate Research Assistant @ IIIT Bangalore
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Bengaluru Area, India
Lead the team of four members to implement Stream Control Transmission Protocol on the Network Simulator NS-3 with Prof Shrisha Rao (IIIT)

### Systems engineer @ Siemens Technology India
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Bengaluru Area, India
- Development of Graphical User Interface Controls for an IDE used for Industrial Automation purposes.
- Developed a semantic XML validation tool for improving my developmental process, which I generalized to be used across the team.


## Education
### MTech in Computer Science
International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

### B.E in Electronics and Communication Engineering
Visvesvaraya Technological University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/megha-shedligeri-51278827

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Last updated: 2026-04-12