Vikram Hosakote
Technical Leader at Cisco
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolVikram Hosakote is a Technical Leader at Cisco with 11 years of engineering experience driving cloud-native, AI/ML, security, and networking initiatives. He blends hands-on systems work—Kubernetes, service mesh, and cloud deployments—with operational rigor, having contributed to OpenStack Kolla to harden production deployments and resolve critical runtime issues. Based in Boston, he has a strong foundation from Syracuse University and MIT continuous education, and an early career spanning aerospace simulators, telecom, and medical-device displays. Vikram is known for translating long-term technical vision into pragmatic engineering improvements and developer-facing tooling. He regularly shares knowledge through tech talks, blogs, and open-source contributions, demonstrating a commitment to community and operational excellence. Colleagues rely on him to spot future trends and shepherd complex platform work from prototype to production.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Graduate Certificate Continuing Education, Professional Graduate Certificate Continuing Education at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Engineering (B.E) Information Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) Information Science and Engineering at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityMaster's degree (MS) Computer Science, Master's degree (MS) Computer Science at Syracuse University
English, Hindi, Kannada
Stackoverflow
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kubernetes
top-5%
Github Skills (19)
docker10
configuration-management10
dockers10
openstack10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
devops10
mariadb9
kubernetes9
rabbitmq9
haproxy9
kubelet6
minikube6
go6
kubernetes-helm6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/kolla
Feb 2016 - Jun 2016
Kolla provides production-ready containers and deployment tools for operating OpenStack clouds. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:24 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Vikram focused on improving the Kolla project's deployment and operational aspects by addressing configuration issues and incorporating new features. They implemented enhancements to the HAProxy configuration and added configurations for logging with Heka and MariaDB. Additionally, the user fixed RabbitMQ crash issues and addressed Magnum trustee configuration, ensuring the smooth operation of the OpenStack cloud environment.
openstack
vhosakot/Cisco-Live-Workshop
Jun 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:627 commits, 542 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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