Anshul Ahuja
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolAnshul Ahuja is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with eight years of experience building cloud-native BCDR solutions for Azure, focused on making customer data highly available and recoverable during outages. He designs and implements extensible, scalable systems across the stack, with hands-on expertise in Kubernetes/AKS, Azure Storage, and a polyglot toolset that includes Go, C/C++, Python, C#, and JavaScript. Anshul is an active open-source maintainer and contributor—most notably to Velero (Kubernetes backup/migration) and the Kubernetes Dashboard—where he has improved both backend restore logic and UI testability. His background includes leadership in student open-source communities at IIT Jodhpur and real-world freelancing on the Kubernetes Dashboard, reflecting a blend of product-minded engineering and developer-experience focus. Collectedly, he brings a practical mix of cloud platform engineering, OSS stewardship, and mentoring that accelerates reliable, operable disaster-recovery features at scale.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Minor in Management, Minor in Management at Indian Institute of Technology JodhpurClass 12 (CBSE), Class 12 (CBSE) at Delhi Public School, Dwarka
English, Hindi, French
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Github Skills (31)
kubernetes10
javascript10
testing10
user-interface10
recover10
ui-design10
graphical-user-interface10
uid10
backup10
go10
front-end-development10
kubernetes-pods10
re-store10
container-storage-interface10
cypress9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
velero-io/velero
Jun 2022 - Jun 2022
Backup and migrate Kubernetes applications and their persistent volumes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:284 reviews, 8 commits, 61 PRs in 5 days
Contributions summary:Anshul contributed to the Velero project by implementing features and bug fixes related to backup and restore operations in Kubernetes environments. Their work involved modifying code to support downloading CSI (Container Storage Interface) JSON from object stores, and adding resource modifier capabilities. They also implemented fixes to the controller, specifically addressing issues related to backup storage locations and handling Persistent Volume (PV) claim references. The user also updated build configurations and added an end-to-end (E2E) test for resource modifiers.
kubernetespersistent-volumesdisaster-recoverybackupvelero
kubernetes-retired/dashboard
Sep 2019 - Feb 2020
General-purpose web UI for Kubernetes clusters
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 16 PRs, 77 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Anshul primarily contributed to the user interface of the Kubernetes dashboard. Their work involved fixing input components, updating URLs, correcting pathing for app logos, redesigning the login page to improve user experience, and adding Cypress tests for navbar and user panel elements. This included adding specific identifiers for testing and refactoring code for better maintainability. The contributions focused on improving the functionality, usability, and testability of the dashboard's frontend.
kubernetes-cluster
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