Anish Ramasekar
Principal Software Engineer at Kubernetes
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAnish Ramasekar is a Principal Software Engineer and cloud-native infrastructure expert based in Seattle with 11 years of experience building scalable Kubernetes and Azure integrations. He combines a strong networking foundation (M.S. in Computer Networks) with hands-on Go development and DevOps, having shipped features across Kubernetes core, Azure cloud providers, AKS tooling, and the widely used Secrets Store CSI Driver. At Microsoft and previously IBM, he bridged networking, security and cloud platform work—authoring automation that configured 100,000+ Apple devices at IBM and implementing KMS and dual-stack IPv6 fixes in Kubernetes. An active SIG-Auth leader and maintainer, he contributes to critical open-source projects that shape production-grade container security and identity flows. Known for pragmatic engineering that spans controller logic, CI pipelines, and cloud deployers, he brings depth in both systems-level networking and developer-facing platform reliability.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Master’s Degree, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics and Communication Engineering at Vellore Institute of TechnologyHigh School, High School at National Public School, Bangalore
Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, german (beginner), English
Github Skills (49)
e2e-testing10
ingress-controller10
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
k3s10
apidoc10
testing10
e2e-test10
keyman10
key-management10
cloud-infrastructure10
microsoft-azure10
dockers10
networking10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/secrets-store-csi-driver
May 2019 - Jan 2023
Secrets Store CSI driver for Kubernetes secrets - Integrates secrets stores with Kubernetes via a CSI volume.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:19 releases, 815 reviews, 492 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Anish contributed to the implementation of the Azure provider pod identity install steps and implemented a controller server for sanity tests. They fixed typos, updated links, and added a travis configuration, also temporarily disabling sanity checks until the move to travis. The user also modified go.mod by updating the dependency versions. Finally, they refactored the code in the secrets-store.go file.
azure-keyvaultkubernetes-secretsstorescsimount-multiple-secrets
Azure/aad-pod-identity
May 2019 - Jan 2023
[DEPRECATED] Assign Azure Active Directory Identities to Kubernetes applications.
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:24 releases, 280 reviews, 285 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Anish's contributions focused on enhancing the `aad-pod-identity` repository. Their commits included updating documentation and error messages, adding retry logic and sleep intervals to improve reliability, and implementing functionality to handle iptables cleanup on uninstall. The user also added retries to role assignments and made adjustments to deployment templates, demonstrating involvement in both backend logic and infrastructure aspects of the project.
active-directoryazure-active-directorykubernetes-applicationsaad-pod-identitykubernetes
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