Amulya Meka
Cloud Engineer at IBM
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAmulya Meka is a Cloud Engineer based in Bengaluru with 8 years of experience building and hardening cloud-native and container platforms. At IBM she has progressed from application development to cloud engineering, focusing on Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift ecosystems and contributing actively to the upstream community. Her open-source work on Kata Containers stands out—she fixed cross-architecture build issues, added Confidential Computing (PEF) support, and improved CI/CD and integration testing for cri-containerd and Kubernetes. She brings practical expertise in ppc64le and s390x architectures and in resolving low-level QEMU and virtiofsd integration problems that are easy to overlook. Amulya combines developer-first thinking with DevOps rigor, streamlining test environments and automation for reliable container runtimes. Her background in IT (BTech) and sustained community involvement make her a solid bridge between enterprise cloud projects and upstream open-source infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology at MallaReddy Engineering College for WomenJohnson Grammar School ICSE
Hindi, Telugu, English
Github Skills (23)
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
ppc64le10
qemu10
scripting10
dockers10
cicd10
script10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
virtualization10
kata-containers10
sh10
shell10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kata-containers/tests
Sep 2020 - Jun 2022
Kata Containers tests, CI, and metrics
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:16 reviews, 18 commits, 20 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Amulya primarily focused on improving the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline for the Kata Containers tests repository. Their contributions include fixing issues related to building and installing dependencies on different architectures (ppc64le, s390x), especially for Docker and QEMU. They also addressed issues with custom image building for Kubernetes tests, and streamlined the test environment cleanup procedures.
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kata-containers/kata-containers
Mar 2020 - Jun 2022
Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs. https://katacontainers.io/
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:65 reviews, 26 commits, 50 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Amulya primarily contributed to supporting the Kata Containers project on the ppc64le architecture. Their work involved fixing build and configuration issues related to the QEMU hypervisor and virtiofsd, including addressing linking problems and build failures. They added support for Confidential Computing features, specifically PEF, and integrated it with the Kata runtime environment. Additionally, they developed and maintained CI/CD workflows for running integration tests, particularly with cri-containerd and Kubernetes, and made several test-related improvements.
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