Abhijeet Kasurde
Principal Software Engineer at Ansible by Red Hat
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolAbhijeet Kasurde is a Principal Software Engineer based in Vancouver with a decade of experience building and maintaining automation, backend and DevOps tooling across cloud, virtualization and systems software. At Red Hat/Ansible he led VMware automation efforts, delivering 30+ modules and shaping CI/test strategies while also contributing upstream to notable open-source projects like govmomi, podman and pytest. His work blends Python and Go backend engineering with pragmatic DevOps—improving Ansible collections, package managers (dnf), and infrastructure tooling for real-world admin workflows. Known for steady bug fixes that often improve documentation and usability, he quietly improves reliability across security and certificate systems (FreeIPA, Dogtag) and orchestration stacks. Outside core product work he’s an active community contributor and speaker, with a penchant for fixing bugs “while adding them” — a mix of humility and relentless iteration.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, CA, 3.3 out of 4, MSc, CA, 3.3 out of 4 at Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research
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Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
Apr 2017 - Oct 2022
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:648 reviews, 1056 commits, 3533 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Abhijeet's contributions centered on developing and maintaining infrastructure automation tools, specifically within the VMware ecosystem. Their work involved creating, managing, and updating modules for various vSphere services and resources, including virtual machines, datastores, storage policies, and virtual switches, which demonstrated a focus on infrastructure-as-code. The user also implemented new modules, such as those for managing host acceptance and firewall configurations, indicating an expansion of the tool's capabilities. Moreover, the user contributed to CI/CD pipeline improvements, including adding capabilities and support for testing.
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ansible-collections/ansible.posix
May 2020 - Jan 2022
Ansible Collection for Posix
Role in this project:Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:85 reviews, 28 commits, 75 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Abhijeet primarily contributed to the Ansible Collection for Posix, enhancing its functionality and maintainability. Their work included updating module examples to use Fully Qualified Collection Names (FQCNs), removing Ansible metadata, and fixing typos. They also addressed issues related to the `mount` module, ensuring correct behavior, and improved the `authorized_key` and `firewalld` modules by adding features and fixing bugs. Furthermore, they updated the codebase based on the guidelines.
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