Arvind Somya
Cary,NC
Summary
Detail-oriented, organized and meticulous employee. Works at fast pace to meet tight deadlines. Enthusiastic team player ready to contribute to company success. Complex problem-solver with analytical and driven mindset. Dedicated to achieving demanding development objectives according to tight schedules while producing impeccable code.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Golang Engineer
Microsoft Inc, Insight Global, AFO
05.2023 - Current
- Working on the Azure For Operators – Network Cloud project
- Wrote key features including different network connection types for the AFO-NC workload cloud.
- Participated in code reviews and validation testing
- Automated complex functional test cases.
Staff Engineer
VMware Inc
01.2021 - 04.2023
- Worked on the Telco Cloud Automation (TCA) product
- This product is a full infrastructure manager and orchestrator for 5G Telco networks
- Wrote services to enable 5G NFV deployments on Kubernetes clusters
- Authored helm-service, a highly scalable REST based service to install helm chart-based CNF (Cloud native Network Functions) on remote Kubernetes clusters
- Authored a REST service to backup and restore the entire TCA control plane and replicate all running operations on new setups
- Implemented logging solutions to gather logs and metrics for cloud native Kubernetes systems
- Wrote Kubernetes operators and helm charts for various services
- Work on customer escalations as required.
Senior Member of Technical Staff
VMware
01.2019 - 12.2020
- Added features and bug fixes to the, Integrated Openstack next generation architecture
- Designed and wrote feature support for the container based VIO.next architecture
- Collaborated with different business units and functional groups to integrate a vast array of VMware products into VIO.next
- Provided Subject matter expertise for Openstack, Kubernetes, Networking and Istio.
Technical Leader
Cisco
01.2014 - 01.2018
- Developed new features, plugins and drivers for the Openstack cloud operating system and drove architecture for the Cisco plugin and Neutron core code in Openstack
- Maintained version compatibility for Cisco plugins across Openstack releases
- Committed and maintained the Cisco Nexus plugin for VLAN segmentation in the upstream Neutron repository
- Collaborated with community members from various organizations to implement improvements to the ML2 framework including dynamic segmentation, hierarchical port bindings and type driver refactors
- Wrote the upstream OpenDaylight V2 journaling driver and VPP (FD.io) L3 driver
- Write the Cisco VTS ML2 mechanism driver and the Cisco APIC mechanism driver.
- Contributed to the Istio open-source service mesh project
- Pioneered expansion of the Istio service mesh across Openstack private clouds
- Added multi-cluster features to Istio components and expanded the Istio service mesh to public and private clouds, enabling customers to deploy applications across multiple public/private cloud environments
- Successfully delivered a PoC of an expanded mesh to the OpenStack community at the 2018 Vancouver summit
- Worked on improved Istio mesh expansion across OpenStack using Neutron service chaining for zero downtime and minimal disruption to services.
Software Engineer
Cisco
01.2006 - 01.2011
- Developed, deployed and maintained several tools around system testing of, IOS hardware
- Wrote features and bug fixes for the home brewed test harness ‘HarborMaster’
- Designed prototype software to enable rapid deployment of testbeds using layer 1 switches
- Setup and maintained infrastructure involving compute, storage and network parts
- Wrote a collaborative web editor to publish documentation in JavaScript
- Fortune Web Space
- Fortune Web Space is a web hosting firm catering to individuals and small-medium businesses
- It has a clientele of 400 in over 30 countries worldwide
- Partner/Customer Relations
- Actively involved in the company’s startup, prepared initial technical requirements, communicated with vendors and suggested the essential systems
- Set up collocated remote servers in Texas, U.S managed from India including Apache web servers on Red Hat Linux 6.2 along with FTP and Email/POP/SMTP using SendMail server
- Designed Web interfaces in HTML and JavaScript
- Back end systems designed using PHP, MySQL and Perl
- Implemented credit card system using PHP/MySQL
- Setup Control Panel (MonsterControl) for all users
- Wrote scripts in Perl and Bash to automate user account creation, maintenance and software installation.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of North Carolina
12.2005
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics
G. H. Raisoni College of Engineering
07.2002
Skills
- Go
- Kubernetes
- Python
- Containers (Docker and Containerd)
- Microservices and Service Mesh (Istio)
- Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
- Software Defined Networking (SDN)
- SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
- NoSQL (MongoDB)
- Version Control Systems (Git, Perforce)
- Programming (Object Oriented OOP and Functional)
- Distributed Systems (Large and Massive Scale)
- Performance Optimization (Profiling)
- Networking (L2 Switching, L3 routing)
- Message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Cloud Computing (Private and Public - Azure, AWS)
Timeline
Golang Engineer
Microsoft Inc, Insight Global, AFO
05.2023 - Current
Staff Engineer
VMware Inc
01.2021 - 04.2023
Senior Member of Technical Staff
VMware
01.2019 - 12.2020
Technical Leader
Cisco
01.2014 - 01.2018
Software Engineer
Cisco
01.2006 - 01.2011
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of North Carolina
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics
G. H. Raisoni College of Engineering