Kirtana Ashok
Software Engineer OCTO at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, India
Summary
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Top SchoolKirtana Ashok is a software engineer with 4+ years of experience specializing in Windows containers, containerd, Kubernetes and AKS at Microsoft, where she is a containerd maintainer and active contributor to Kubernetes. Her work focuses on improving Windows container runtime reliability—updating hcsshim integrations, protobufs, and CRI components to ensure accurate container metrics and compatibility. Prior roles span cloud database query processing at Azure SQL and kernel-level networking at NetApp, giving her a strong systems and networking background. Based in Bellevue with roots in India, she pairs deep backend and OS-level expertise with a passion for outdoor adventure, yoga, and environmental conservation. An engineer who contributes to high-profile open source infrastructure, she brings practical production experience and a collaborative open-source mindset to complex distributed systems.
4 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Masters in Computer Networking, Masters in Computer Networking at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) at MSRIT
English, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi
Github Skills (13)
windows-containers10
containerd10
cri-o10
go10
container-runtime-interface10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
dockers9
kubernetes-pods9
docker9
kubernetes9
occi8
cnc8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
containerd/containerd
Jul 2022 - Mar 2025
An open and reliable container runtime
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:113 reviews, 109 PRs, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Kirtana primarily contributed to the `containerd/containerd` repository by updating dependencies and protobuf definitions. Their commits focused on integrating updated versions of the `hcsshim` library, which is essential for Windows container support. They also addressed dependency updates within the CRI (Container Runtime Interface) implementation, specifically related to Windows container statistics and metrics. These changes demonstrate a focus on maintaining and improving the core functionality of containerd's Windows support.
containersisolationcontainerdrustruntime
kiashok/hcsshim
Mar 2022 - Mar 2025
Windows - Host Compute Service Shim
Contributions:281 pushes, 124 branches in 3 years 1 month
shimwindowshostcompute
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