Karthikeyan Valliyurnatt
Senior Software Engineer at Elastic
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKarthikeyan Valliyurnatt is a Senior Software Engineer based in Greater Boston with around three years of focused software engineering experience and a broader decade-plus background across enterprise engineering and database administration. He currently contributes to Elastic’s cloud-native tooling and has hands-on experience in backend and DevOps work on the widely used Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes project, including controller logic, policy validation, and e2e test enhancements. Previously he built scalable systems at Microsoft, NetApp and IBM and earlier supported large Oracle fleets at Ford, giving him a practical blend of distributed systems, storage, and operational reliability expertise. He holds an MS in Computer Engineering from UT Dallas and a BTech from VIT, and brings a pragmatic, test-driven approach to shipping production-ready cloud infrastructure.
2 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Engineering, 3.67, Master of Science (MS), Computer Engineering, 3.67 at The University of Texas at DallasBachelor of Technology (BTech), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 8.34, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 8.34 at Vellore Institute of Technology
English, Tamil, Hindi
Github Skills (12)
elasticsearch10
kubernetes10
elasticsearchquery10
kubernetes-operator10
go10
aws-elasticsearch10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
testing9
yaml8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/cloud-on-k8s
May 2023 - Apr 2025
Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:172 reviews, 147 PRs, 75 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Karthikeyan primarily focused on the backend and operational aspects of the Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes project. They contributed to removing autoscaling annotation support, which involves modifying controller logic and test files. Additional contributions include validating policy IDs for Elastic Agent, introducing configurable Elasticsearch settings and secret mounts within the StackConfigPolicy, and addressing Kibana basepath updates. The user's work also encompasses enhancements to e2e tests, updating networking configurations and increasing agent memory for specific environments.
kubernetes-operatorselastickibanakuberneteselasticsearch
kvalliyurnatt/cloud-on-k8s
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes
Contributions:242 pushes, 78 branches in 1 year 10 months
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