Hariharan Jayaraman is a senior engineering leader with 20+ years of experience designing and operating cloud-scale services, currently leading teams at Amazon in the New York metro area. He combines deep systems-level expertise in C/C++, Linux/Windows debugging, and distributed/cloud architectures with a track record of shipping secure, licensed enterprise and consumer products across global markets. At Microsoft he progressed through engineering and program management roles, and he has over seven years of people management experience overseeing teams of 40+, bridging technical execution with cross-group stakeholder engagement. He is an active contributor to open-source tooling for cloud images—improving Azure support in HashiCorp Packer—demonstrating practical DevOps impact beyond his day job. Known for clear communication with audiences from engineers to executives, he also brings uncommon experience running international projects across America, Asia, Africa and Europe.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at Army Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Engineering Computers, Bachelor of Engineering Computers at Savitribai Phule Pune University
Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
Role in this project:
DevOps & Cloud Engineer
Contributions:23 commits, 6 PRs, 26 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Hariharan primarily contributed to the Azure-specific aspects of the Packer tool, focusing on improving the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) builder. Their work involved implementing asynchronous deletion of resource groups, adding warnings about deprecated VHD creation, and enhancing the device login process for Windows builds. They also addressed configuration issues related to the async_resourcegroup_delete option and corrected various formatting issues within the code.
Contributions:3 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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