Mugdha Adhav

Engineering Manager · Acquia

I'm an engineering manager focused on cloud-native infrastructure — specifically the parts of Kubernetes most people would rather not think about (CNI, CSI, CoreDNS) and the AWS services that keep large clusters humming. Outside of work, I maintain the warm-metal/container-image-csi-driver open-source project and build whatifed.com — AI-imagined alternate timelines for everyday moments.

Experience

  1. Engineering Manager at Acquia

    — Present·Remote

    • Improved cross-team coordination for cluster launches, feature upgrades, and incident response — lifting delivery speed and operational stability.
    • Led cost-reduction work: GP3 volume migration, Calico → AWS Network Policy Controller, and scale-to-zero in Kubernetes.
    • Drove adoption of Prometheus, Grafana, and ArgoCD to tighten observability and continuous delivery.

  2. Senior Software Engineer at Acquia

    — ·Remote

    • Owned critical cluster services — CoreDNS, cluster-autoscaler, and EBS/EFS storage drivers.
    • Built new Container Network Interface solutions alongside the AWS VPC CNI; improved CSI drivers for storage orchestration.
    • Worked across EKS, IAM, CloudWatch, S3; service mesh, Helm, RBAC, ArgoCD, and container runtimes (CRI-O, containerd).

  3. Software Engineer at InfraCloud Technologies

    — ·Pune, India

    • Built Go applications on AWS to deliver scalable cloud-native solutions for client workloads.
    • Wrote integration tests spanning AWS, GCP, and Azure to prove multi-cloud compatibility.
    • Shipped customer usage metrics that sales and marketing used for data-informed decisions.

  4. Programmer Analyst at Cognizant

    — ·India

    • Designed Virtual Network Function chains using SDN/NFV on OpenStack for scalable virtual infrastructure.
    • Containerized VNFs with Docker and automated deployment pipelines through shell scripting.