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Santhosh Prabhu

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Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
📍 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Santhosh Prabhu is a Software Engineer at Microsoft on the Azure Container Networking team, focusing on solving complex scalability challenges. He holds a PhD from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and has extensive experience in network verification from his time at VMware and Broadcom. People who have worked with him describe him as a passionate mentor and a natural teacher.

Beyond his core engineering work, Santhosh demonstrates a strong interest in academic mentorship. He actively helps prospective students by sharing resources and information about Computer Science PhD admissions in the United States, leveraging his own deep academic background to guide others in their careers.

He was a recipient of a Best Paper Award for his research on "FORTIFY: Software Defined Dataplane Resilience."

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Experience
12 Years
Current Role
Senior Software Engineer
Job Level
Middle
Location
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Container Networking
Currently works on the Microsoft Azure Container Networking team and contributes to their open-source projects.
Network Verification
A core focus of his PhD research and numerous academic publications, including the award-winning paper "FORTIFY".
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Career

Work history

8-2024
Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft
11-2023 - 8-2024
Research Development Software Engineer
Broadcom Software
8-2022 - 11-2023
Staff Engineer
VMware
8-2019 - 8-2022
Senior Member Of Technical Staff
VMware
6-2014 - 8-2019
Software Engineer
Veriflow Systems
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Education
2013 - 2020
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2010 - 2012
Master of Technology (M.Tech.)
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
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