# Rudrajit Tapadar

> Engineering at Microsoft Azure

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

Passionate software engineering leader and open source contributor specializing in distributed systems, cloud platform and large scale mission-critical compute infrastructure management.

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2022 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
Engineering Lead in Azure Core for Application Gateway, a fully managed application load balancer at hyperscale.

- Lead architect for autoscaling (horizontal/vertical) and connection draining
- Drove step function gains in scalability, reliability, provisioning latency, and datapath performance
- Incident manager for high-severity customer facing incidents
- Partner with Azure orgs to deliver features and influence roadmap

### Principal Software Engineer @ Workday
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Pleasanton, California
• Led the design and development of Workday's cloud platform on GKE. Played an instrumental role in bootstrapping the solution and productizing it. Built several operators using Kubebuilder in Golang and GitOps pipelines using ArgoCD.
• Built foundational compute and infrastructure provisioning components to operate Workday’s Kubernetes platform on AWS.
• Part of a team of global engineers managing all of Workday's production clusters in the public cloud. These clusters use a variety of cloud native technologies such as Istio for Ingress and Service Mesh, Prometheus for metrics, ELK stack, etc.

### Member Of Technical Staff @ PayPal
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Jose, CA
• Software Engineering Lead for PayPal's Traffic Engineering team on both Private Cloud (OpenStack) as well as Public Cloud (GCP).
• Implemented a home grown container networking solution that could speak both libnetwork as well as CNI. This solution is used to connect all of core PayPal's products and services.

### Principal Software Engineer @ Symantec
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Mountain View, CA
• Led the Symantec Cloud Platform's Traffic Engineering efforts, which included OpenStack Neutron Networking and Designate DNSaaS software development.
• Evaluated and integrated Calico networking with OpenShift (Kubernetes) on AWS.
• Contributed to open source projects: Juniper Open Contrail SDN, OpenStack and Project Calico.
• Designed and developed automation tools for operating the network infrastructure at scale and collecting telemetry data across multiple regions.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams for streamlining cloud operations and delivery.

### Software Engineer @ Cisco Systems
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | San Jose, CA
• Designed and developed features for Nexus 1010/1110 series of Cloud Services Platform - a physical appliance for hosting highly available NFV services on RHEL based KVM.
• Developed the OpenStack Neutron plugin for Cisco Nexus 1000v switch and upstreamed it in Havana release.

### Engineering Intern @ QUALCOMM Inc.
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Santa Clara, CA
• Designed and developed a messaging interface for WiFi Direct (Peer-to-Peer WLAN protocol).

### Research Engineer @ Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT)
Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 | Bengaluru Area, India
• Designed and developed an in-memory high availability framework in C++ to handle redundancy in a base station of a GSM network.
• Developed the 3GPP TS 08.58 Base Station Controller - Base Transceiver Station (BSC-BTS) Interface Layer 3 specification.

### Research Intern @ Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Jan 2006 – Jan 2006
• Developed a simulator to analyze churn in peer-to-peer networks.
• Delved into the analytical models to study churn, and compared the simulations against the analytical models.


## Education
### Master of Science in Computer Science
Texas A&M University

### Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering
Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rudrajittapadar
- Portfolio: http://people.tamu.edu/~tapadar/

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Last updated: 2026-04-12