Anusha Ragunathan

Software Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States24 yrs 8 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in Kubernetes and cloud-native solutions.
Proven track record in leading engineering teams.
Dynamic Tech Evangelist at major industry events.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in cloud-native solutions and platform reliability.

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Skills

Core Skills

KubernetesCloud ComputingObservability

Other Skills

Go (Programming Language)VMware WavefrontSplunkAPI DevelopmentAsyncAmazon Web Services (AWS)Argo WorkflowsEphemeral ContainersSoftware DevelopmentCVirtualizationLinuxPerlDistributed SystemsDebugging

About

I'm passionate about solving complex problems in systems and infrastructure engineering. I have a strong track record in leading engineering teams and mentoring engineers. I engineer solutions with a keen sense to incorporate voice of the customer. I specialize in architecting and delivering scalable, resilient infrastructure and complex cloud-native solutions. I possess proven expertise in critical platform components including Kubernetes, Fleet Management, API Gateway, Service Mesh, Platform Engineering, Observability, and Service Debuggability. As a highly collaborative engineering leader, I am adept at defining roadmaps, aligning requirements with internal and external stakeholders, and leading high-performing teams to drive platform reliability across multiple time zones. I am also a dynamic Tech Evangelist with substantial experience promoting technological advancements and sharing knowledge at major industry events like KubeCon and DockerCon.

Experience

24 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

6 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Intuit

Principal Software Engineer

Jun 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 11 mos · Mountain View, CA · On-site

Platform Leadership & Scale: Co-led the team that built Multi Cluster Fleet Management for over 325 Kubernetes clusters and 2,500+ production services, defining the APIs for cluster and namespace lifecycle management and abstracting Kubernetes complexities for end developers.
Platform Abstraction & Developer Velocity: Co-led the IKS AIR application abstraction platform, which replaced complex Kubernetes manifests with an application-centric, OAM-inspired specification, shielding developers from version updates and platform changes. To enhance the developer experience on the abstracted platform, built necessary migration tooling and also built the Debuggability Paved Road leveraging Argo Workflows and Ephemeral Containers to provide one-click debugging features like thread dumps and debug shells.
Incident Detection & Observability: Architected and deployed a Traffic Observability tool to monitor the health of the API Gateway and service mesh and Kubernetes "Cluster Golden Signals" to monitor the health of the Kubernetes Fleet, resulting in a significant reduction in Mean Time to Detect and Resolve (MTTD/R) for platform and traffic incidents.
Complex Platform Migrations: Drove critical, large-scale migration efforts, including successfully transitioning the Container Runtime Interface from dockerd to containerd across the entire fleet with zero downtime and leading the deployment of Istio Ingress Gateway AutoScaling.

Go (Programming Language)VMware WavefrontSplunkAPI DevelopmentAsyncKubernetes+2

Docker, inc

Software Engineer

Sep 2015 – Jun 2020 · 4 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco

Maintainer of the moby Open source project (http://github.com/moby/moby). Author of the Docker plugin framework that allows 3rd party plugins for storage, network and authorization to integrate with the Docker platform. Contributor to Kubernetes sig-storage OSS project. Worked on storage features for the Docker Enterprise product. Speaker at conferences including DockerCon, KubeCon and DevPulseCon.

Vmware

4 roles

Staff Engineer

Sep 2013 – Sep 2015 · 2 yrs

Systems software engineer for VMware's vSphere Fault Tolerance feature that protects Symmetric Multiprocessor VMs.

Staff Engineer, CPD

Apr 2012 – Aug 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos

Implemented code patches for multiple vSphere update and patch releases with specific focus on VM platform infrastructure (vmkernel, virtual devices, vmx and guest drivers).

Senior MTS

Jan 2008 – Apr 2012 · 4 yrs 3 mos

Conceived and technically led the Crash Reporter project. Client traps VM crashes and automatically transmits crash dumps to VMware’s servers. Scalable server receives crash dumps, performs data analysis and responds to incoming customer crash reports with potential solutions.

MTS

Jan 2006 – Dec 2007 · 1 yr 11 mos

Senior software engineer at the company's Continuing Product Development (aka Sustaining) Organization. Every day work involves fixing bugs arising from the field, customer escalations, handling security fixes and also helping core development teams with feature development. Work on C and C++ on Windows and Linux.

Dell

Software Engineer: Server Systems Managment

Jun 2001 – Dec 2005 · 4 yrs 6 mos

Worked on multiple Systems Management Software including IPMI based tools, BMC, BIOS, RAID, Pre and Post OS deployment over the network (PXE). Development was done in C on Windows, Linux and DOS.