Gowtham Shanmugasundaram
Senior Software Engineer (Openshift AI) at Red Hat
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolGowtham Shanmugasundaram is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native storage and UI features, now working on OpenShift AI at Red Hat in Bengaluru. He has a strong full-stack background demonstrated by significant contributions to the OpenShift console UI and deep involvement in Red Hat’s OCS operator, where he implemented metrics, mirroring, and storage-class enhancements for Ceph/RBD. His work spans front-end usability improvements and back-end/DevOps automation, including deploying RBD mirror daemons and adding alerts and health metrics that improve operator observability. Having rotated through multiple roles at Red Hat and a stint at IBM and Flipkart, he brings production-hardened practices across large-scale distributed systems. Gowtham holds an MCA and is particularly adept at translating complex storage behaviors into actionable UI and operator features—an uncommon blend that bridges developer UX and low-level storage plumbing.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Applications - MCA Computer Programming Specific Applications, Master of Computer Applications - MCA Computer Programming Specific Applications at PSG College of TechnologyBachelor of Computer Applicaiton Computer Programming Specific Applications, Bachelor of Computer Applicaiton Computer Programming Specific Applications at KSR College Of Arts And Science
Github Skills (26)
kubernetes10
roc10
go10
openshift10
prometheus10
kubernetes-pods10
ceph10
react10
alerts9
testing9
javascript9
apidoc9
ui-design9
alertview9
alertdialog9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/console
Mar 2019 - May 2022
OpenShift Cluster Console UI
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:578 reviews, 46 commits, 61 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Gowtham primarily contributed to the OpenShift console UI, focusing on the persistent volume and persistent volume claim pages by adding metrics and status fields. They also worked on the Ceph storage plugin, modifying code related to disk type selection, certificate secret key names, compression pool messages, and creating and testing multiple storage pools. Additionally, the user implemented changes to support encryption and thick provisioning for Ceph RBD storage classes.
consoleopenshiftk8skubernetescluster
red-hat-storage/ocs-operator
Mar 2021 - Feb 2022
Operator for RHOCS
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:75 reviews, 28 commits, 12 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Gowtham primarily contributed to the OCS operator, focusing on features related to block pool management and mirroring. They added features to enable block pool tabs in the operator's UI, implemented metrics for block pool mirroring status and image health, and added alerts. Additionally, the user refactored unit tests and implemented the deployment of RBD mirror daemons when mirroring is enabled, and updated the storage cluster API with new mirroring spec fields.
kubernetes-operatorkubernetesoperator
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.