Ganeshkumar Ashokavardhanan
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGaneshkumar Ashokavardhanan is a Software Engineer II and Tech Lead for GPU Infrastructure on Azure Kubernetes Service with nine years of experience building cloud-native, performance-focused systems. At Microsoft he shipped features that sped pod start times by 50% to 30x via on-demand image streaming, enabled new GPU SKUs (e.g., H100) on AKS by orchestrating driver/device-plugin/fabric manager stacks, and saved tens of millions by automating VHD replica scale-downs. He’s an active open-source contributor to the Azure CLI and its extensions, adding AKS features like AAD reset, IP whitelisting, outbound traffic controls and load-balancer improvements. A Berkeley EECS/Haas graduate with research experience in vision transformers and a history of leading Robotics@Berkeley, he combines systems-level engineering with ML and distributed-systems research sensibilities. Uncommonly, he blends low-level infrastructure optimization with developer-facing CLI improvements, making large cloud platforms both faster and easier to use.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and Business (Haas), Bachelor's degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and Business (Haas) at University of California, BerkeleyHigh school, High school at DPS-Modern Indian SchoolB.S. in Business Administration and Management, B.S. in Business Administration and Management at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessSummer College Preview Program Computer Science concentration, Summer College Preview Program Computer Science concentration at Carnegie Mellon University in QatarB.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at UC Berkeley College of Engineering
English, Tamil, Hindi, French
Github Skills (24)
kubernetes10
cloud-computing10
python10
cloud-infrastructure10
microsoft-azure10
azure-cli10
azure-aks10
azure-kubernetes-service10
kubernetes-pods10
azure10
cloud-services10
cli10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-cli
Feb 2019 - Oct 2020
Azure Command-Line Interface
Role in this project:
Back-end & Cloud Engineer
Back-end & Cloud EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 10 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Ganeshkumar primarily contributed to the Azure CLI, focusing on the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) command module. Their work included implementing new features such as Azure Active Directory (AAD) configuration reset and IP whitelisting, along with enhancements to load balancer functionality. Additionally, they addressed bug fixes, code improvements, and documentation updates related to AKS commands. The contributions demonstrate a strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and API interactions.
command-line-interfacecloudazurecommand-lineazure-cli
Azure/azure-cli-extensions
Mar 2019 - Nov 2020
Public Repository for Extensions of Azure CLI.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 9 commits, 21 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Ganeshkumar primarily focused on enhancing the Azure CLI extensions, specifically the AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) preview features. Their contributions include updating the service principal secret generation, modifying table formatters for improved output, and updating the cluster creation and update commands. The user also implemented features related to outbound traffic configuration, including user-defined routing and load balancer settings. Additionally, the user made changes to the help documentation and versioning, contributing to the overall maintainability and usability of the AKS preview extension.
azure-cli-extensionpublic-repositoryextensionsazureazure-cli
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