Ganga Siddem
Principal Software Engineering Manager, Azure at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolGanga Siddem is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft in Redmond with 7 years of focused experience building cloud-native, hyperscale observability and monitoring platforms for Kubernetes and Azure. He architects multi-tenant monitoring stacks that span edge and cloud, driving solutions used by AKS, AKS-Lite, AKS HCI and Azure Arc at 5K-node scale and beyond. A hands-on leader and maintainer of key open-source projects (including contributions to Azure CLI AKS modules and the Docker-Provider repo), he blends DevOps, backend engineering and product leadership to ship revenue-generating platform capabilities. His work on Container Insights, DCR templates, MSI authentication and Fluentd/agent integrations shows deep expertise in telemetry pipelines and large-scale agent design. Colleagues describe him as both pragmatic and meticulous—comfortable changing system design and also knowing when to accept platform constraints. Outside of code, his GitHub bio hints at a reflective, steady leadership style grounded in clear judgment.
7 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Master's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Sri Krishnadevaraya University
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Github Skills (33)
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
python10
cloud-infrastructure10
microsoft-azure10
vhd10
dockers10
cicd10
azure-cli10
osdev10
agent10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
azure-monitor10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/aks-engine
Dec 2018 - Oct 2021
AKS Engine: legacy tool for Kubernetes on Azure (see status)
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 11 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Ganga primarily focused on improving the container monitoring add-on for Kubernetes, making several updates to its configuration and deployment. They addressed issues with the agent's image and configuration across different Azure clouds, and also ensured its compatibility with various Kubernetes versions. Key contributions include modifications to the Fluentd configuration, updates to the deployment manifests, and incorporating latest agent versions to optimize the monitoring capabilities.
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Azure/AgentBaker
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Agent Baker is aiming to provide a centralized, portable k8s agent node provisioning lib as well as rich support on different OS image with optimized k8s binaries.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:44 reviews, 11 commits, 34 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Ganga primarily focuses on updating and maintaining the deployment configurations for the OMS agent, a key component of Azure Monitor Container Insights, specifically for Windows-based virtual machines. Their contributions include updating image tags and release versions for various agent builds, including those for the container insights, across multiple Windows versions. The user also incorporates feature gates in the code to enable or disable features, related to GPU accelerator usage metrics and container insights, to improve the operational efficiency.
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