Josh Meranda
Senior Software Engineer at SUSE
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Meranda is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years of experience building back-end systems, cloud-native tooling, and observability pipelines, currently at SUSE in Providence, RI. He has hands-on experience contributing to Rancher, a well-known container management platform, where he worked on back-end infrastructure, extension APIs, certificate management, and DevOps automation. Josh has migrated large-scale metrics across clusters, refactored monolithic GUIs into containerized microservices, and implemented CI pipelines that produce minimal, secure container images. He mentors junior engineers and enjoys breaking complex problems into elegant, impactful solutions that improve operational reliability. Recently exploring DevOps roles, he blends software craftsmanship with infrastructure thinking to bridge development and operations. Outside core dev work, he has a track record of automating institutional services and leading student teams, reflecting a practical focus on making tools that scale for real users.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree of Science Computer Science and Cybersecurity, Bachelor's degree of Science Computer Science and Cybersecurity at Champlain College
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Github Skills (21)
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
rancher10
dockers10
go10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
orchestration10
orchestra10
devops10
rust6
typehinting6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rancher/rancher
May 2022 - Jul 2026
Complete container management platform
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:135 reviews, 79 PRs, 41 pushes in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the back-end infrastructure and tooling of the Rancher project. Their work includes updating dependencies, adding image origins, and refactoring code related to API extensions. They also worked on setting up and configuring the extension API server, including adding log rotation and creating/managing certificates using secrets, showing contributions in DevOps and infrastructure aspects. The user integrated features to support the imperative API.
container-managementrancherdockerkubernetesorchestration
izabeleb/MinesweeperMulti
Jan 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:5 PRs, 23 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 10 months
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