# Siva Sunkavalli

> Software Engineer

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sivasunkavalli

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Third Wave Automation
Jan 2022 – Present | Union City, CA

### Senior Site Reliability Engineer @ Google
Jan 2013 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California, United States
2018 - 2022
I was the Team Lead and Manager for Hostnet SRE, which is responsible for on-host networking stack across almost all of Google production hosts and also responsible for Google Compute Engine's Virtual Networking Data plane. I helped create the SRE team, wrote its initial charter and built most of the local team.

2013 - 2018
Founding member of the Cloud Networking SRE team, responsible for Google Compute Engine's Andromeda Virtual Networking stack. My work covered all aspects of the product from its creation through its exponential growth - from incident and abuse management to full automation of new location deployments.
In addition, I was also an SRE during some of this time for Google's Bandwidth Enforcer.

### Site Reliability Engineer @ Google
Jan 2008 – Jan 2013 | Mountain View, CA
2011-2013
As one of the first (and only) SRE for GCE, I managed and ran Google Compute Engine (GCE) in beta before it was available to the general public.
I was later a member of the first SRE team to manage all aspects of the GCE stack, with focus on Cloud Networking.

### Systems Administrator @ University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Jan 2003 – Jan 2008


## Education
### MS in Computer Science
University of Nebraska-Lincoln


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12