Prabhjot Singh Sethi
VP Engineering @ Coredge.io
Bengaluru,KA
Summary
Performance-driven Vice President with 17+ years of experience aligning systems with business requirements, policies, and regulatory requirements. Passionate about applying excellent organization and communication skills to manage and lead teams. Results-oriented individual well-versed in interfacing and consulting on business processes to drive results based on sound overall business judgment.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
2007
2007
years of post-secondary education
Work History
VP Engineering
Coredge.io
09.2021 - Current
- Company Overview: As a leader at Coredge.io, I drive innovation in cloud-native infrastructure, focusing on building advanced platforms that empower emerging cloud service providers to offer AI Cloud and Sovereign Cloud solutions
- Our mission is to develop scalable, secure, and intelligent technologies that enable new players to compete in the cloud ecosystem with enterprise-grade capabilities
- Website: https://coredge.io
- Responsible for following Platforms
- Cloud Orbiter - https://coredge.io/cloud-orbiter/
- Dflare-ai - https://coredge.io/sovereign-ai
- Cirrus Cloud Platform - https://coredge.io/cirrus-cloud-platform
- Headed following Product Distributions
- Coredge Kubernetes Platform (CKP)
- CoRobots - Workflow Automation Engine
- Built the team and product from scratch, addressing following areas
- IaaS - Compute / Network / Storage / firewall / load balancers / Public IPs
- Network and Service controller
- PaaS - Application Orchestration / DBaaS / K8saaS / Slurm as a Service / Workspaces / Notebook Controllers / CDI
- SaaS - Inference as a service
- Cloud Management misc capabilities
- Auth Gateway - IAM / RBAC / Multi-tenancy / Tenant onboarding
- Observability and telemetry
- Security and Policy
- Responsible for setting up processes to deliver products on an agile model with lean structure to manage cost effectively
- Streamlines Architecture and cross team collaboration workflows for coredge
- Head Operations for Bangalore office
- Work with various partners and customers to ensure streamlined operations for them, along with a pipeline setup for handling escalations
- Represent Coredge.io and promote offered platforms and multiple solutions at various events in India and US
- As a leader at Coredge.io, I drive innovation in cloud-native infrastructure, focusing on building advanced platforms that empower emerging cloud service providers to offer AI Cloud and Sovereign Cloud solutions
- Our mission is to develop scalable, secure, and intelligent technologies that enable new players to compete in the cloud ecosystem with enterprise-grade capabilities
- Website: https://coredge.io
Engineer
Aarna Networks
01.2021 - 09.2021
- Part of delivery of Private 5G blueprint for Akarino LF Project - using Free5GC
- Part of delivery of Super 5G blueprint for ONAP LF Project - using Magma core
- Represent Aarna in LF Community
- Handle Interactions with partners and customers
- Envisioned and developed extension to Intel's EMCO project for extended handling of infrastructure at remote edge locations providing orchestration capabilities over hybrid infrastructure
Technical Steering Committee Member
Linux Foundation
02.2019 - 12.2020
- Chairperson for Technical Steering Committee
- Linux Foundation - Technical Advisory Committee member
- Working with leading companies participating in the project to establish a strong community governance structure and process, along with smooth community operations and release process
- Working with other Open Source communities to establish reference architectures and solution for current user needs
- Represented Tungsten Fabric at various Open Source events showcasing new solutions/innovations and power of Tungsten Fabric Platform
- Working with the community to generate future direction and roadmap for the project
- Working towards enabling adoption of Tungsten Fabric by addressing more use-cases
Chief Architect
ATSgen
03.2017 - 11.2020
- Company Overview: Formerly part of TechTrueUp (established as an independent organisation Feb-2018)
- Responsible for ATS India team building, management and engineering deliverables
- Head SDN initiatives at ATS - Tungsten Fabric, OpenNess, VPP datapath, Network service mesh and more
- Leading Team for Innovation of cloud-native solutions targeting Telco Customers using OpenSource projects
- Responsible for presenting solutions and technology to customers, involved in early sales pitch and discussions
- Building and training development team for SDN and OpenStack
- Some of the engineering deliverables achieved are:
- Tungsten Fabric: Feature enhancements for customers, integration with VPP as alternate datapath, extend stable and complete CNI support conforming to Kubernetes e2e tests, integration with OpenShift 4 Platform, Automated and uniform lifecycle management of software using Operator framework, DPDK CNI PoC
- Cloud-Native: Delivered PoC ready solution allowing extension of visibility into secondary networks of kubernetes along with extending service definitions for the same
- Automated multi-cloud deployment using operator framework
- Service Mesh capability across clusters
- OpenNess: Onboarding CNFs/VNFs onto the platform enabling applications to have better performance, using hardware capabilities
- Other Closed Source full stack implementation deliveries for customers, including implementation of application based on TWAMP standards, analytics processing pipeline for input to closed loop automation
- Formerly part of TechTrueUp (established as an independent organisation Feb-2018)
Software Engineer
Nexius
11.2016 - 02.2017
- Building and training opencontrail development team
- Implementation of contrail features for AT&T
Staff Engineer - SDN
Juniper Networks
11.2012 - 11.2016
- Worked as part of open source project (https://github.com/Prabhjot-Sethi)
- Resolving customer issues and escalations
- Contrail Address aliasing functionality
- Health Check Services for overlay entities from underlay network nodes
- Arista Cloud Vision support to handle multiple ToRs
- Integrated OVSDB management protocol - controller functionality (to manage OVSDB VTEPs)
- Performance improvements, enhancements and support for flow/session handling
- Support and enhancements to KSYNC State machine for Vrouter
- Infrastructure blocks like SSL, TCP, Patricia tree implementation
Member of Technical Staff
Aruba Networks
07.2010 - 10.2012
- LLDP/LLDP-MED/VoIP solution
- Rogue AP Containment solution with Mobility Access Switch
- Data-Path ASIC programming for Various L2/L3 and security features
- MAC ageing logic implementation
- Infrastructure and algorithm around TCAM write
Member of Technical Staff - EX Platform
Juniper Networks
12.2007 - 07.2010
- Non-Stop Bridging infrastructure for Junos-ex
- MVRP protocol integration with XSTP and PVLAN
- L2 protocols support for XSTP, MVRP and GVRP
- L3 protocols support for OSPF, ISIS, PIM and VRRP
- Infrastructure components (Task Infra) and Tcpdump decode for MVRP and GVRP packets
Education
B.Tech - Production & Industrial
IIT Roorkee
Skills
Strategic planning & direction
Timeline
VP Engineering
Coredge.io
09.2021 - Current
Engineer
Aarna Networks
01.2021 - 09.2021
Technical Steering Committee Member
Linux Foundation
02.2019 - 12.2020
Chief Architect
ATSgen
03.2017 - 11.2020
Software Engineer
Nexius
11.2016 - 02.2017
Staff Engineer - SDN
Juniper Networks
11.2012 - 11.2016
Member of Technical Staff
Aruba Networks
07.2010 - 10.2012
Member of Technical Staff - EX Platform
Juniper Networks
12.2007 - 07.2010
B.Tech - Production & Industrial
IIT Roorkee
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