I’m Sreenivas Makam (Sreeni) — an engineering and technology leader with 20+ years across Google, Cisco, BYJU’s, and high-growth startups in AI, cloud, gaming, and EdTech.
Most recently, I was the founding tech member and CTO at KGeN/Humynlabs.ai, where I built the engineering organization from scratch and scaled it across AI, gaming, and e-commerce verticals serving millions of users across India, Southeast Asia, and Brazil. Before that, I tripled Google Cloud’s application modernization business in India, led 70+ engineers at BYJU’s across North America and LATAM, and established Cisco’s Private Cloud Networking charter in India.
Where I go deep today: LLM engineering (RAG pipelines, agentic systems, multi-model orchestration), AI-native developer tooling, large-scale systems design, and the intersection of engineering decisions and business outcomes.
On this blog, I write about what I’m learning at the frontier — AI engineering, cloud-native architecture, large-scale systems, and occasionally engineering leadership. The opinions here are my own.
I’m also the author of Mastering CoreOS (2016) and a technical reviewer for several O’Reilly and Packt titles. I was a Docker Captain from 2015–18.
You can find me on LinkedIn or follow me on Twitter/X at @srmakam.
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Hello,
It is a very useful blog. Thanks for sharing.
I could not find the following script:
host3_diff_subnet.py
Can you please tell me where to find it?
Thanks,
Sedef
Hi Sedef
Thanks for pointing out. I have added the script to git, added corresponding link in the blog. Pls let me know if any other comments as well.
Sreenivas
Great blog Sreenivas. Keep it up!
Btw, pop into the ODL/OVSDB channel #opendaylight-ovsdb on irc.freenode.net and join us if interested. I really like your blogging topics!
Thanks Brent. Btw, your blog was 1 of my motivations to start writing a blog and I follow your blog closely…
I was very impressed with the ODL/OVSDB work being done by you and OVSDB team. Will try to step in sometime soon…
Thanks Makam , The blog is very informative and has the consolidated info useful for a newbie like me to kick start and work on ODL.
The topics you have covered are very relevant to us. you have presented information well. I am not sure if our team is aware of this blog. So now i see, why you like to keep our switch wiki updated all the time 🙂
Good stuff Sreenivas.
Thanks Kirk. btw, while I was researching about Network automation, I found your blog(https://pynet.twb-tech.com/) to be very informative.
Sreenivas
I’m trying to contact you. I am a network engineer with 2 years of experience and interested into network automation. Learning python now. I need some guidance from you. Can you share you email id to contact.
Hello, I am trying de work whit the files ova but get this error , when is running the script stack.sh : HEAD is now at 3b41c1b Merge “Remove unneeded call to fecht network infow on shutdown” into stable/icehouse
Very useful. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for sharing your expertise. Your blog is very informative.
Hi Sreenivas,Can u pls guide me to create 2 subinterfaces without vlan in mininet?
Hi Sreeni, I have good experience with dockers but am bit new to consul, mesos etc. I have some basic challenges as well as some advanced. Would like to interact with you if possible. My skype id vaseem.aziz – please connect