Deepu Sasidharan
Principal Developer Advocate
Randstad, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolDeepu Sasidharan is a Principal Developer Advocate and polyglot engineer with 11+ years of experience building cloud-native, microservices and DevOps solutions across Java, Rust, Go, and JavaScript/TypeScript. He combines hands-on product and platform work—from architecting enterprise systems and microservice blueprints to creating SDKs and developer docs—with active community leadership as co-lead of the popular JHipster project. A published author and international speaker, Deepu has shipped developer tooling (including the kdash Rust-based Kubernetes dashboard) and driven adoption programs at companies like XebiaLabs, Adyen, Okta/Auth0. He’s equally comfortable prototyping UX-rich applications and writing proposals or technical roadmaps, reflecting his background as an electrical engineer who still enjoys hardware tinkering. Notably, he revamps large OSS projects to follow modern JS/Node and cloud patterns while mentoring contributors and managing release strategy. Based in the Randstad, he runs a tech blog with a sizable audience and channels his curiosity into robotics, quadcopters and astronomy outside work.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) EEE, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) EEE at Vel Tech Technical University
English, Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil
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Github Skills (60)
kubernetes10
docker10
javascript10
back-end-development10
yeoman-generator10
css10
command-line-interface10
microservices-application10
gulp10
dockers10
java10
netflix-eureka10
jhipster10
javas10
helm10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
kdash-rs/kdash
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
A simple and fast dashboard for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:79 reviews, 442 commits, 174 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Deepu primarily focused on implementing backend features, including adding CLI functionalities to the Kubernetes dashboard. Their contributions involved integrating external command-line tools such as kubectl, docker, and helm to gather and display system information, and they added support for viewing container logs and resource descriptions in the user interface. The user also implemented improvements to the overall layout and various code refactors to enhance the application's stability and code structure.
rustdockerk8skubernetesdashboard
jhipster/jdl-samples
Oct 2018 - Jun 2022
Sample JDL files
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 26 commits, 6 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Deepu's primary contribution focuses on defining and creating JDL (JHipster Domain Language) files. These files describe the structure and relationships within different microservices, including e-commerce and Oracle Human Resources sample applications. The user demonstrates expertise in defining entities, relationships, and application configurations, indicating a strong understanding of the JHipster ecosystem and its domain modeling capabilities. Furthermore, the user is involved in deploying the microservices to Kubernetes using Istio.
javajdl
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