Ash Rao
Senior Member Of Technical Staff at VMware
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAsh Rao is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at VMware with 9 years of experience building cloud-native, production-grade infrastructure and developer platforms. He is a core maintainer of Velero (a well-known Kubernetes backup and migration project) and has deep expertise in persistent volume snapshotting, multi-namespace cluster tooling, and CI/CD for Kubernetes projects. Previously he built multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms and developer UX improvements at Nordstrom and implemented multi-tenant ZooKeeper services and PKI integrations at Microsoft. Ash blends backend engineering with DevOps and open-source stewardship, often contributing cloud-provider-specific adapters, tests, and documentation to improve reliability across distributed systems. Based in Seattle, he combines hands-on platform delivery with a track record of presenting and contributing to the Kubernetes community at events like KubeCon.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (14)
cluster-api10
kubernetes10
backup10
docker10
go10
dockers10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
scripting9
gcp9
shell9
script9
sh9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
vmware-tanzu/velero
Sep 2017 - Jun 2021
Backup and migrate Kubernetes applications and their persistent volumes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:203 reviews, 123 commits, 233 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ash's contributions centered around enhancing the Velero project's capabilities for backing up and migrating Kubernetes applications. They focused on features related to persistent volume snapshots, including preserving and restoring availability zone (AZ) information. The user implemented code changes in cloud provider-specific storage adapters (GCP) and improved testing for these features. The user was also responsible for updating and expanding the project's documentation.
velerovolumeskubernetes-applicationspersistent-volumesdata-protection
kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api
Jul 2018 - Mar 2021
Home for Cluster API, a subproject of sig-cluster-lifecycle
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:43 reviews, 15 commits, 15 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ash primarily contributed to the testing and infrastructure aspects of the Kubernetes cluster API project. They added tests for cluster deployment functionality and implemented support for multi-namespace object handling within the clusterctl tool. Further contributions included fixing build configurations and setting up CI/CD pipelines by adding shell scripts for verifications and making sure the project is in a good shape.
apilifecyclesubprojectcluster-apisig
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