Dharini Chandrasekar
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Intel Corporation
Folsom, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDharini Chandrasekar is a Senior Software Engineering Manager at Intel with a decade of experience building cloud and infrastructure software, rising through roles from Cloud Software Engineer to senior management. She combines hands-on backend expertise in Java, Python and C/C++ with deep operational experience across OpenStack, AWS, Hadoop, MongoDB and CI/CD tooling. As a core contributor to OpenStack Glance, she has improved configuration clarity and documentation for a widely used image service, reflecting a focus on robust, maintainable systems. Her background includes a MS in Computer Science and networking certification (CCNA), underscoring strengths in both software and systems-level design. Based in Folsom, CA, she’s known for translating complex distributed systems requirements into practical delivery plans while mentoring teams through scale and reliability challenges. An underrated asset is her habit of improving developer experience through better docs and config semantics, which reduces operational friction in production.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at University of CincinnatiBachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science at Anna University Chennai
Sanskrit, Hindi, Tamil, English
Github Skills (8)
configuration-management10
service-provider10
openstack10
service-design10
python10
documentation10
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/glance
Jun 2016 - Mar 2017
OpenStack Image Management (Glance). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:28 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Dharini primarily focused on enhancing help text within the Glance project's configuration options. They modified help text for various configuration options related to public endpoints, context middleware, taskflow executors, Swift store utilities, property protection, location strategies, image conversion, RPC, and WSGI servers. The user's work improved the documentation and clarified the purpose of these configuration settings. Furthermore, they addressed inconsistencies and deprecated configurations.
opendevglanceimage-managementopenstack
openstack/glance_store
Aug 2016 - Mar 2017
Glance stores library. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Contributions:9 commits in 6 months
opendevglancestores
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