Hemanth Malla
Hello 👋 I'm an Engineer @ Microsoft working on Distributed Systems, Linux and Networking. I spend too much time playing with Cilium & eBPF. I'm a Cilium CNCF Maintainer and I currently co-lead Cilium SIG-Scalability.
Previously at Datadog, Tower Research Capital, and Paytm. I occasionally share high-res clicks 📷 here and aspire to blog at designing.systems and algo.design.
I try and share interesting stories from my work at different conferences. You can checkout talk recordings below. Any feedback is welcome :)
Everything, Everywhere, All At Once
Keynote: Hemanth Malla & Laurent Bernaille - KubeCon Chicago
Tales from an eBPF Program's Murder Mystery
Hemanth Malla & Guillaume Fournier, Datadog - CiliumCon Amsterdam
Challenges with implementing in-kernel FQDN policies using eBPF
Hemanth Malla - Linux Plumbers Conference 2025
Day 2 with Cilium - What to Expect Running at Scale
Hemanth Malla & Maxime Visonneau, Datadog - CiliumCon NA Chicago
Cilium: From Service Mesh to Kubernetes
James McShane, Hemanth Malla, Liz Rice & Thomas Graf - KubeCon NA Chicago
Hot standby load balancing with SO_REUSEPORT and eBPF
Hemanth Malla - eBPF Summit
Lessons from Building Scalable Network Policy Enforcement with eBPF
Hemanth Malla & Joe Stringer - KubeCon Paris
Troubles and Tidbits from Datadog's eBPF journey
Guillaume Fournier, Hemanth Malla - Linux Plumbers Conference
Logs Told Us It Was DNS, It Looked like DNS, It Had to Be DNS, It Wasn't DNS
SREcon23 Americas
KubeCon Paris
Hemanth Malla
Implementing Networking QoS for Containers with eBPF and Cilium
eBPF Summit 2024
Panel Discussion: eBPF: A New Era in Cloud Infrastructure Tools
OSS Summit Vienna 2024
Scaling Network Policy Enforcement Beyond the Cluster Boundary
KubeCon SLC
CiliumCon London 2025 - Closing Remarks
CiliumCon London
CiliumCon London 2025 - Opening Remarks
CiliumCon London
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