Tech Companies

@Netflix

I am currently on the cloud network engineering team at Netflix. I’ve worked on a variety of projects, including:

• Auditing and improving the internal DNS story. Proposed both a short term and long-term vision for 2025.
• Proposed, designed, and implemented a distributed network diagnostic tool to debug any internal node in the Netflix fleet. Built using Go and AWS SSM.
• Mentored and pair-programmed with multiple new grad engineers.
• Improved performance of an existing distributed IP allocation service and contributed to a new IP allocation service - both written in Go.
• Part of regular cloud network on-call rotation and worked to reduce on-call burden via thorough cloud primitive runbooks, debug tooling, and more.
• Helped with the IPv6 migration process by working on a workflow orchestration tool in Python.

@Fastly

I formerly was on the network control and optimization team at Fastly. The bulk of my work involved various components of autopilot, an automated egress traffic engineering system written in Go.

• I initially worked on the gRPC API for the telemetry component used to aggregate prometheus and flow data.
• I worked on L4 vs. L7 proxying options for a BGP routing manager.
• I worked on simultaneously reducing resource usage and improving latency of the same BGP routing manager.

@DigitalOcean

I’ve worked on a few different teams and projects (the majority of which are written in Go) at DigitalOcean.

• On the delivery team, I worked on DOCC, an abstraction layer on top of Kubernetes. I especially focused on integrating metrics and monitoring with DOCC as well as jobs. You can learn more about DOCC and metrics in this talk.

• As a member of the observability team, I worked on a new iteration of our datacenter-wide monitoring system, known as Pandora.

• I joined the network services team at the beginning of 2018 and have delved into a new world of software defined networking in the cloud. I first worked on configuring observability primitives (logging, tracing, and metrics) crucial for the testing and release of the VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) product. I then worked on an internal DHCP server implementation critical for the custom image product known as BYOI.

• Between 2019 and 2020, I worked on the L3/MPLS project, working on primitives to help transition DigitalOcean’s networking architecture from one that is L2-based to one that is L3-based (and using MPLS).

• Prior to leaving Digital Ocean, I worked on benchmarking network performance for a new compute product.

Personal Projects

@PacketStories

Along with my one of my former DigitalOcean and current Netvfy colleague, I’ve started a blog on fun networking finds called Packet Stories.

Photography

I started taking photos with a used Sony A5100 mirrorless in 2018 and finally decided to create a portfolio and start blogging here.

SnehaClimbs!

Around the time I got into photography, I also started to climb - first more casually and then a few years after the pandemic, in a more intentional way. I started this blog snehaclimbs to talk about my process of climbing, training, and the random gear I love.

Startups, Open-Source, and More

@Netvfy

For the last few years, I having been working with friends on the long-standing Netvfy project, a VPN product aiming to help individuals, small and medium-sized businesses in the IoT space. Netvfy gives me the opportunity to work on all areas of the network product stack - from the lower level switches and controllers to the user-facing web applications.

@Uptime2020

Prior to the the 2020 election cycle, I joined an organization known as Uptime2020 as a consultant. Over the course of a few months, I was embedded with various progressive tech organizations to improve software observability, security, and reliability.

@Fibbit

In 2016, I was a member of the Tow-Kight Entrepreneurial Journalism Fellowship. I worked on and presented Fibbit, a veterinary search and health tool for pets, with pricing information for various vaccines, exams, and procedures. I pitched Fibbit at the conclusion of the fellowship. The Fibbit prototype was a simple Node.js application leveraging mapbox.js.

@Perooz

From 2015 to 2016, I worked on Perooz, a journalism tool consisting of a website and an annotation tool for news websites. My cofounder and I pitched at various events and to several accelerators but ultimately elected to stop working on the project and release it. The various repos can be found here and here. I even wrote a postmortem of sorts on it.

Fun Projects

Who amongst us hasn’t purchased a domain or ten on a whim? Though it has been many a moon since I’ve written full stack code, I’m joining a friend in creating a series for fun whimsy websites in 2023. Exciting links to follow.

Whatstheweather.in

Hackathons

Trollbusters - Cracking the Code 2015

Buddy the Beagle - TechCrunch Disrupt 2015

Perooz - NY’ Times Hack Day 2014