Gunasekhar Matamalam
Sr. Software Engineering Manager at SUSE
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolGunasekhar Matamalam is a seasoned software engineering leader with over 15 years of experience building and scaling engineering teams and digital products across manufacturing and enterprise software. As a Senior Software Engineering Manager at SUSE and former digital factory leader at GE Power, he blends hands-on technical expertise (from C/C++ and Java to modern web stacks and DevOps) with strategic program and budget management to deliver measurable ROI. He has a strong track record of driving Agile transformations, architecting maintainable systems, and leading cross-functional initiatives that connect OT and IT in mission-critical environments. Gunasekhar also bridges product and execution—having defined roadmaps, designed ERDs, and written backend and frontend code while serving as scrum master and code reviewer. Beyond corporate roles, he contributed test automation and e2e improvements to the popular Rancher Desktop project, showing a practical commitment to quality in open-source tooling. Based in New Westminster, BC, he pairs Six Sigma discipline with pragmatic engineering to turn complex requirements into reliable, scalable solutions.
6 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceBachelors in Technology, Mechanical Engineering, 72%, Bachelors in Technology, Mechanical Engineering, 72% at Vishwodaya Institute of Technology & Sciences
Github Skills (9)
jestjs10
electron10
test-automation10
testing10
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
container6
macos5
windows5
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop
Jul 2021 - Nov 2022
Container Management and Kubernetes on the Desktop
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 release, 98 reviews, 68 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Gunasekhar focused on implementing and refactoring end-to-end (e2e) tests for the Rancher Desktop application. Their contributions included setting up Spectron-based testing, creating and modifying test cases for different application features (e.g., general tab, Kubernetes settings, port forwarding), and migrating the testing framework from Mocha to Jest. They also refactored the e2e setup for modularity and adjusted the tests to handle scenarios based on the operating system.
containerswindowslinuxdockerrancher
rancher-sandbox/docs.rancherdesktop.io
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Docs site for Rancher Desktop
Contributions:195 reviews, 236 commits, 156 PRs in 1 year
rancher-desktopdocs-sitedesktoprancher
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