About

Aravindhan Krishnan is a dynamic and passionate systems-focused engineer with over 3 years of experience in programming and computer networking. He is currently a Member of Technical Staff 3 at VMware, where he focuses on solving real-world challenges at scale. Aravindhan is methodical and goal-oriented, with a strong focus on achieving his objectives. Aravindhan's expertise lies in programming and computer networking, and he has worked on a variety of projects in these areas. He has served as an SME on Network Time Protocol (NTP) and CGroups isolation across controllers, as well as worked on getrandom() syscall to ascertain system-wide adherence to FIPS & CC guidelines for NSX-ALB. He has also steered efforts on enhancing the packet path performance across L2-L7 layers of DPDK and BSD stack. Aravindhan has also extended TENS by adding capabilities to generate UDP traffic and act as a UDP server, added TLSv1.3 capability to TENS HTTPS traffic generator, and augmented TENS to provide extensive end-to-end metrics from the distributed traffic generator. He actively maintains TENS, a feature-rich containerized distributed L4-L7 traffic generator with extensive metrics capabilities and anomaly reporting. He has also driven efforts on rootfs creation using debootstrap and end-to-end packaged upgrade of Ubuntu 20.04 for VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer. Aravindhan completed his Bachelor of Technology in Computer Engineering from Vellore Institute of Technology in 2019. He also completed his 12th grade from Sri Ahobila Math Oriental Higher Secondary School in 2015, where he studied Maths, Physics, Chemistry, and Computer Science. Aravindhan is an experienced software engineer with a relevant experience of 3.78 years. He is a dedicated professional who is always looking to expand his knowledge and skills in the field of programming and computer networking.