# Pradeep KR

> Principal Engineer

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

Experienced in Datacenter Virtualization, Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Distributed Systems, Microservices, and Cloud Native Architecture. Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and deploying scalable cloud infrastructure using OpenStack, Docker, containers, and Ansible. Contributed to building scalable platforms for NFV workloads, utilizing Containerized Microservices and optimizing performance with NUMA awareness, CPU Pinning, CPU isolation, and Huge Pages.

Designed and deployed cloud-native solutions with Kubernetes, OpenStack plugins, Etcd, Prometheus, and Grafana. Scaled applications across datacenters using VxLAN, GoBGP, and ML2-VPP plugins. Experience with NFVbench and TRex for benchmarking NFVi performance and scalability. Previous roles at Brocade and HP Networking, developing networking switches/routers with ASICs and crafting scalable networking solutions across both data and control planes.

Technical Skills
Cloud & Virtualization
Virtualization: KVM, ESXi, VMware vSphere, Open vSwitch (OVS), VPP, SR-IOV

Cloud Infrastructure: OpenStack, AWS, Azure, GCP, Hybrid Cloud

Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Microservices

IaC: Ansible, Terraform

Networking & SDN
Technologies: SDN, NFV, DPDK, VPP, OVS-DPDK, SmartNIC

Protocols: VXLAN, EVPN, GoBGP, BGP, OSPF, ARP, VLAN, TRILL, TCP/IP, IPV4, vPC, LACP, STP, DHCP, SNMP, Fiber Channel (FC), iSCSI, NFS

Infrastructure: Layer 2/Layer 3 Networking, Ethernet Fabric, SmartNIC

Distributed Systems & Cloud Native
Technologies: Etcd, Prometheus, Grafana

Messaging: RabbitMQ, Kafka

System & Platform Software
Linux Kernel Development: Multi-threaded, Socket programming

Hypervisor Development: ESXi user space/kernel modules, VMware IOFilter (VAIO) SDK

Platform Software: Data Center switches/routers, Layer 2/Layer 3 Networking

Performance Optimization: VPP, OVS-DPDK, DPDK

Programming & Development
Languages: Python, C, C++, Go

Linux Development: User space & Kernel space, Device Drivers, IPC

Tools: Git, Gerrit, Jira, Jenkins, GDB, Valgrind, ASan, tcpdump, Perf, Clearcase

Performance Testing: Ixia, Spirent, Netperf, IO Meter, Smartbits

Cloud-Native & DevOps
CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab, Jira, Confluence

Automation & Scripting: Ansible, Terraform, Shell scripting

## Work Experience
### Principal Engineer @ JetStream Software, Inc
Jan 2017 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked on requirement, design and development of Disaster Recovery solution for VMware ESXi hosted virtual machines in Microsoft Azure cloud, used C/C++ and distributed systems design. Completed design and implementation of a crash-consistent fault-tolerant log-structured storage for staging DR data on its way to a permanent cloud-based object storage using C/C++ in a virtualized Linux appliance on X86/X64 platform. Improved system performance (I/O latency and bandwidth) more than 200% by refactoring and tuning parts of software. Led implementation of various features in the DR management server, such as automatic DR log size adjustment, Disaster runbook execution.

Skills: Debugging · Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) · C (Programming Language) · Test-Driven Development · Code Review · Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) · Linux · Data Structures · Systems Design · GNU Debugger · C++ · Linux application development · Distributed Systems · Multithreading · C

### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ SanDisk
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked on Sandisk's Enterprise caching product line, a server-side caching solution designed to accelerate HDD-based storage by caching frequently accessed data on a fast SSD. Worked on the design and development of "IO filter" based hypervisor caching layer for Vmware ESXi, which implemented the disk caching algorithms. Led the development of features like cache creation, cache resize and state management based on system events like snapshot, clone, vmotion and storage vmotion. Used various kernel debugging techniques to troubleshoot problems (gdb, stack dumps) and optimize performance.

### Staff Software Engineer @ Brocade Communication
Jan 2008 – Jan 2014
Design and development of software for Datacenter virtualization/cloud computing products.
- Packet forwarding software for VCS ( Virtual Cluster switching ) for Data Center Ethernet Fabrics.
- Platform software for core-edge routing on Datacenter cloud computing platform
- High Availability solutions for Datacenter cluster fabric
- Data plane and control plane integration for next-gen High performance cloud computing platform

### Lead Software Engineer @ Hewlett-Packard
Jan 2003 – Jan 2007
Design and development of networking protocol for datacentre switches.

- Layer 2 & Layer networking protocols bring up 
- Management plane and control plane integration using configuration framework
- Software development on RTOS like Vxworks

### Senior Software Engineer @ Hughes Software Systems
Jan 2000 – Jan 2003
Desing and development of software for Telecom/networking devices.

- Development of softswitch framework for VOIP gateway
- Internal knowledge of signalling protocols like SIP, MGCP

### Project Trainee @ Texas Instruments
Jan 2000 – Jan 2000
Design and development of tool for addressing voice quality due to network latency

- Development of software tool to addressing voice quality in IP network (VOIP) due to network latency


## Education
### M.S in Software Systems
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

### B.E in Computer Science
Visvesvaraya Technological University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12