AMD
Staff Software Engineer
July 2025 — Present
- Design and development of AMD Fabric Manager (AFM) for AMD Helios scale-out GPU racks (MI450).
Staff Software Engineer @ AMD
Samarth Deyagond Building reliable systems at the edge of scale.
I design and ship cloud-native control planes, Kubernetes operators, and APIs that keep complex infrastructure understandable — so teams ship faster without losing sleep.
About
Engineer, tinkerer, occasional poet of release notes.
I’m Samarth — a curious software engineer with expertise in distributed systems and cloud-native control planes. I build software that owns lifecycle, configuration, and state: Go, Kubernetes operators, CRDs, gRPC and REST APIs — across AWS, Azure, hybrid multi-cloud, and rack-scale GPU platforms.
That through-line shows up in what I’ve shipped — from
maintaining Machine Controller Manager in SAP Gardener (homogeneous multi-cloud Kubernetes), through AKS Edge at
Microsoft (Arc-connected Kubernetes on private cloud), to architecting and building a cloud-native network overlay for
multi-cloud and hybrid enterprise connectivity in Juniper’s Office of the CTO.
Off the clock I write articles, cook, and travel — same curiosity, different keyboard and coordinates.
Stack highlights: Golang, Python, Kubernetes, gRPC, AWS, Azure, Crossplane, controller-runtime, microservices, and whatever helps the team ship safely.
Work
Experience
Selected roles — full detail on the résumé PDF.
Juniper Networks (CTO Office)
Staff Software Engineer · Senior Software Engineer
Jan 2025 — July 2025 · Apr 2023 — Dec 2024
- Led design and development of Juniper Cloud Interlink (JCI) — multi-cloud / hybrid overlay connectivity.
- Kubernetes CRDs & operators (controller-runtime); Crossplane compositions across AWS and Azure.
- Led Azure track with a team of 5; distributed lease locks for concurrent router configuration.
- Microservices (Cloud Connect, Discovery, Cost Management); GORM data layer; gRPC integration tests.
- Hot configuration updates via K8s watchers and Go channels; mentoring and CTO forum talks.
Microsoft
Software Development Engineer II
Feb 2022 — Mar 2023
- AKS Edge: Kubernetes operators, CAPI-based Arc-connected clusters on private cloud.
- Target Cluster Backup & Restore operator; Azure DevOps pipeline health monitoring and auto-heal.
- DRI on-call ownership in production.
SAP Labs
Developer · Product Management Fellow
Jun 2020 — Feb 2022
- Gardener: CRDs/operators for Machine Controller Manager; cluster autoscaler including scale-from-zero.
- Tests in Go; CNCF webinar; documentation standards and Kubernetes training.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
System Software Engineer I · Intern
Jul 2018 — Jun 2020 · Jan 2018 — Jul 2018
- REST APIs and Golang SDK for Composable Fabric Manager; VMware Cloud Foundation reference architectures.
- OpenShift OSB APIs integrated with HPE OneSphere; Horizon Connection Server management console.
- Three invention disclosures; HPE University Relationship and community blogging.
IIT Ropar — Research intern
IAS-SRF program
May 2016 — Jul 2016
- Crowdsourced knowledge building — qualitative theory for knowledge growth on Wikipedia.
Projects & open source
Repositories I maintain or contribute to heavily — from Gardener node lifecycle to small tools and experiments.
- gardener / machine-controller-manager Machine Controller Manager Declarative worker VMs across clouds; MCM CRDs, providers, and cluster-autoscaler integration. View on GitHub →
- gardener / autoscaler Cluster-autoscaler (MCM) Kubernetes cluster-autoscaler fork that scales nodes via Machine Controller Manager. View on GitHub →
- AxiomSamarth / gita.io gita.io OpenAPI 3 API for Gita verses — Devanagari, transliteration, and meaning. View on GitHub →
- AxiomSamarth / home-loan-optimizer Home Loan Optimizer Go API for EMI strategies that balance interest, tax savings, and liquidity. View on GitHub →
- AxiomSamarth / lomba Lomba Stream pod logs into local Loki and Grafana for quick cluster forensics. View on GitHub →
- AxiomSamarth / kube-vip kube-vip Fork aligned with upstream — VIP and LoadBalancer services (ARP/BGP, IPv4/IPv6). View on GitHub →
Awards, education & certifications
Awards & honors
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2025
CTO Citizenship Award Juniper Networks
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2018
3rd Best Technical Presentation HPE Intern Project Fair
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2017
Special Student UG Summer School, IISc Bengaluru
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2014
1st Prize, IEEE Cyberia Webmania SJCE, Mysuru
Education
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2014 — 2018
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysuru CGPA 9.33 / 10
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2012 — 2014
Pre-University Course Karnataka Science College, Dharwad 96.0%
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2002 — 2012
Matriculation Pavan English Medium High School, Dharwad 98.72%
Certifications
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2026
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Blogs
Engineering notes, ideas, and the occasional personal post.
Most of what I publish is technical — systems, Kubernetes, APIs, and things I’m learning or shipping — but I write personal pieces here too when it feels right. Latest below; the full archive is on the blogs page.
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2026-03-21
The Unsaid!
The Unsaid! For every compliment you have received, a thousand have gone unspoken! Photo by Manuel Cosentino on Unsplash We live inside a...
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2026-01-31
JAPAN: A ‘Civilization’ Personified
JAPAN: A ‘Civilization’ Personified My first international journey took me to Japan , referred to as ‘Nihon’ in Japanese — and it was not...
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2024-04-14
Shell bound!
Shell bound! 2024 started with an extremely good note. From settling my home loan in mere 38 installments (read my financial framework fo...
Contact
Let’s build something reliable.
For consulting, speaking, or engineering roles, reach out by email or connect on LinkedIn. I respond best to concrete context: stack, constraints, and what “good” looks like.