Summary
Deepak Chidambaram is a Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of deep expertise in networking, currently driving AI data center network automation and observability at Crusoe after leading routing control-plane programmability at Juniper Networks. He designs scalable, production-grade systems using C/C++, Python, and Go, and architected gRPC-based APIs, OpenConfig gRIBI, BGP automation, BMP telemetry, and Kubernetes-native routing analytics. His background spans multicast and fast-reroute innovations at Nokia, MPLS and protocol test automation at Alcatel-Lucent, and early research and teaching in computer networks, giving him a rare blend of protocol-level rigor and cloud-native engineering. Comfortable with databases from BerkeleyDB to InfluxDB and tooling like Kafka, KEDA, and Helm, he focuses on performance, reliability, and secure automation for large-scale network infrastructure. Notably, he bridges hardware-oriented telecom systems and modern AI/HPC cloud stacks, making him effective at translating low-level network requirements into containerized, autoscaling deployments.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech, B.Tech at Vellore Institute of Technology
MS, MS at University of Pittsburgh