Sridhar Rao
Director at The Linux Foundation
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSridhar Rao is a networking-focused technology leader with a PhD from NUS and over 25 years of domain experience, currently serving as Director at The Linux Foundation India after leading networking and edge community architecture for The Linux Foundation. He blends applied research and product-minded engineering across SDN, NFV, wireless mesh and ML-for-networking, with hands-on work from kernel-level WiMAX implementations to open‑vSwitch-based virtualization. Known for mentoring and teaching, he has steered research labs and industry teams to deliver proofs-of-concept and field-tested systems for next-generation wired and wireless networks. Comfortable at the intersection of research, standards and developer communities, he brings rare depth in both protocol design and practical deployment of open networking technologies.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)MTech, Computer Science, MTech, Computer Science at National Institute of Technology KarnatakaipSpace Building Next-Generation Data Center coursePhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at National University of SingaporeBE, Instrumentation and Electronics, BE, Instrumentation and Electronics at Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur
Github Skills (26)
monitoring10
observability10
ebpf10
networking10
bpf10
security10
kernel10
k8s10
1password10
kubernetes9
kubernetes-networking9
cni9
nfv8
sdn8
edge-computing7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
opensource-tnbt/utilities
Jan 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
sknrao/opi
Jan 2023 - May 2026
OPI Main Repository
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 4 months
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