Vinay Kulkarni
Principal MTS at eBay
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVinay Kulkarni is a Principal MTS and Director-level cloud engineer in Bellevue with 10 years of experience building production-grade Kubernetes networking, resource and cost management solutions. He specializes in eBPF/XDP-based networking and security, having led the open-source Mizar project to deliver pod QoS, label-based policies and multi-tenant CNI capabilities at scale. Vinay has driven industry-facing features — including a cross-company effort to enable in-place pod resizing that can cut workload costs and carbon footprint — while partnering with university researchers on eBPF offload. A hands-on contributor to kubernetes/kubernetes, he has improved E2E test coverage and stability for core areas like volumes, DNS and vSphere storage, showing he bridges deep systems research with production reliability.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Southern California
Github Skills (9)
kubernetes-pod10
cnc10
e2e-testing10
kubernetes10
container10
go10
containers10
test-automation10
e2e-test10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/kubernetes
Sep 2020 - Oct 2022
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:392 reviews, 6 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Vinay's commits primarily focus on modifying and extending existing end-to-end (E2E) tests within the Kubernetes framework. The changes include refactoring test functions, adapting tests to handle container names, and adding new tests to cover functionality. The modifications touch several areas, including volume management, cluster DNS, and vSphere storage. These edits improve the test coverage and ensure the stability and correctness of the Kubernetes project.
containersschedulingdockergradeproduction-grade
vinaykul/arktos
Feb 2020 - Jul 2022
Arktos for large-scale cloud platform
Contributions:6 PRs, 245 pushes, 19 branches in 2 years 5 months
cloud-scalescalecloudlarge-scalecloud-platform
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