Archana Shinde
Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolArchana Shinde is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native, Linux and virtualization-focused systems, now based in San Jose. She has a strong track record at Intel contributing to Clear Linux and Clear Containers, and has driven end-to-end telemetry, crash reporting, and updater features for large-scale Linux distributions. Her open-source work on the high-profile Kata Containers project includes deep QEMU integration, device hotplug support, and agent/networking enhancements, plus CI and test-infrastructure improvements that hardened project pipelines. She combines backend and systems engineering with DevOps discipline, often bridging low-level VM/device work and higher-level CI/CD reliability. Known for solving multipart integration challenges, she brings both product-focused delivery experience and hands-on kernel/runtime familiarity. Her background in privacy-aware cloud services and early mobile/GIS projects adds breadth across platforms and use cases.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at University of Texas DallasBachelor of Engineering Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Engineering at COEP Technological University
Github Skills (21)
qemu10
cni10
bash10
cicd10
automation10
go10
virtualization10
kata-containers10
automations10
device-management9
networking9
containerization9
containerd9
kubernetes-pods8
io8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kata-containers/kata-containers
Apr 2018 - Jan 2023
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 & System Engineer
Back-end & System EngineerContributions:11 releases, 721 reviews, 225 commits in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Archana contributed extensively to the Kata Containers project, primarily focusing on features related to QEMU interaction, device management, and agent enhancements. Their work included updating QEMU command implementations for newer versions, adding support for hotplugging devices such as VFIO and block devices, and introducing configurations to manage IO threads. They also made several improvements to the agent, including IPv6 route handling, handling shared memory, and integrating with network plugins.
firecrackervirtualizationociworkloadvdi
kata-containers/tests
Aug 2018 - Sep 2022
Kata Containers tests, CI, and metrics
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:13 releases, 85 reviews, 81 commits in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Archana Shinde's contributions primarily focused on maintaining and improving the test infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for Kata Containers tests. They implemented changes to adapt the testing environment to Go modules, configured CNI networking, updated configurations for containerd, and addressed issues related to CNI plugin installation. Additionally, they addressed integration issues with cri-o and conmon versions, and fixed problems within the static analysis checks. These changes enhanced the robustness and stability of the testing framework.
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