# Vinod Raju

> Infra Engr

Location: Fremont, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/vinodraju

Experienced software engineer with proven ability to build infrastructure, Microservices architecture, and Data center provisioning applications.

Specializations
* OS                                             --    Linux (CentOS, Ubuntu)
* Languages 		                 --    Golang, C++, Terraform, C, Python

* Software				         --    Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL, MongoDB,  NGINX, ElasticSearch, Kibana, Vault, Prometheus, HTTP, TCP/IP, cURL, Git, Swagger, OpenAPI, GraphQL, Istio, Karpenter, Datadog, Snowflake

* Server Platform                        --    Cisco UCS
* Virtualization Technologies     --    VMware vShphere: ESXi 5.0
* Container                                  --    Docker, Kubernetes (statefulSets, deployment, services) 
* Cloud Technologies	          --   Amazon Web Services (Route53, CloudFront, ALB, Aurora, VPC, MSK, MSK connect, ElastiCache, EC2, S3, IAM)

## Work Experience
### Engr @ Loom
Jan 2022 – Present
core infrastructure/ architect - data streaming using MSK connector / microservice/ AI Agent workload/ cloud security

### Engr @ Alation
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Building SaaS platform from scratch and tenant onboarding micro services

### Engr @ NetApp
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Cloud services

### Technical Lead @ Cisco
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | San Jose, CA
Cisco Intersight SaaS platform
 - Simplify management of Cisco HyperFlex, a Hyperconverged infrastructure both from cloud (AWS) and onprem appliance

Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS)
 - FC Zoning and VLAN grouping feature

### Technical Lead @ Cisco
Jan 2007 – Jan 2014 | San Jose, CA
Cisco physical security platform - media streaming/ cam discovery/ virtual appliance/ RESTful service

### Software Engineer @ LeftHand Networks [acquired by Hewlett Packard]
Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 | Boulder, CO
server health monitoring - SAN server

### Software Engineer (intern) @ Viewent Technologies Inc
Jan 2004 – Jan 2004 | Sunnyvale, CA
vulnerability remediation management service  for routers


## Education
### Master of Computer Science
Colorado State University

### B.E. in Computer Science
PSG College of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vinod-raju-235ba537

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Last updated: 2026-04-11