About

Amardeep Nagarkar is a highly skilled Staff Engineer at VMware Carbon Black, with over 16 years of experience in the field of software development and security. He has a proven track record of writing secure code and providing security-related improvements to software products. Amardeep's expertise lies in SDN, NSX, and innovation, making him an invaluable asset to the VMware team. Currently, Amardeep holds the position of Staff Engineer - Automation at VMware, where he is responsible for developing automated routing for NSX's scalability tests to support 500 hypervisors using homegrown simulator technology. This has helped NSX validate at a scale of 10k logical ports and 10k routes per edge. In addition, he has developed test code to validate NSX features like Distributed Firewall - 30k firewall rules and 100k Edge firewall rules, and Load Balancer - 3k health checks per edge. Amardeep has also validated the first drop of NSX - Policy aka Intent-based networking release at scale. Prior to his current role, Amardeep worked as a Software Engineer in the Scale Team - NSX - Network Virtualization platform for the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) at VMware. He has also worked as a Visiting Faculty for Cyber Security Course at the Department of Technology, University of Pune. Amardeep holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Pune University, where he specialized in software engineering. His technical skills include software engineering and testing. Amardeep is a dedicated professional who is committed to delivering high-quality work. He is a quick learner and has an eye for detail, making him an excellent problem solver. With his expertise in security and software development, Amardeep is a valuable addition to any team.