From Network Security to Cloud-Native Proxies

The Through Line

Basundhara's work has consistently focused on secure networking and distributed infrastructure.

At Cisco, she worked close to customer-facing network security problems across firewalls, intrusion prevention, VPNs, malware analysis, and access-control systems. That experience created a practical foundation: security architecture has to work in real deployments, under operational pressure, and across many kinds of customers.

Infrastructure Engineering

At Google, she worked in Shopping Ads Infrastructure on tooling that used historical time-series data from the shopping indexing pipeline to estimate Borg compute and memory requirements for code changes. The work used C++, ProtoBufs, gRPC, and AutoTFX.

At Nutanix, she moved deeper into cloud infrastructure, building datapath and control-plane features for high-performance API gateway systems and hybrid-cloud traffic management.

Open Source and Proxy Systems

The Envoy reverse tunnel contribution is the clearest public example of this arc. It combines:

• practical network security
• distributed systems design
• production hybrid-cloud requirements
• open-source contribution
• proxy datapath engineering

Now at Databricks, Basundhara works on datapath networking features for network proxies using C++, Rust, and Scala, including low-latency components for high-throughput distributed systems. She also remains active in Envoy as a contributor and code owner.

Public Portfolio Framing

The portfolio should emphasize secure cloud networking infrastructure, not generic product language. The strongest themes are:

• reducing network attack surfaces
• service-to-service communication across boundaries
• open-source proxy systems
• distributed scheduling and infrastructure efficiency
• engineering work that moves from research to production systems