Kumar Jakkali
Software Engineering Manager at Altair
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolKumar Jakkali is a software engineering manager with 10+ years of experience leading QA, automation, and engineering teams across enterprise software and HPC domains. He has progressed from hands-on software and test engineering roles to leadership positions at Altair and Siemens Digital Industries Software, combining technical depth in Python, Perl, Shell, and C with strong Scrum and automation discipline. Kumar has driven automation strategy and CI/CD improvements, and contributed to the OpenPBS workload manager—fixing interactive job issues and enhancing Azure pipeline CI—showing comfort with both backend systems and DevOps. He is comfortable translating complex system architecture into reliable test frameworks and operational pipelines that reduce friction for large-scale deployments. Based in Bengaluru, he blends pragmatic engineering with team coaching to deliver stable, production-grade software. An often-overlooked strength is his long-running focus on cleanup and reliability details (e.g., temp file handling and sudo usage) that prevent recurring operational issues.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.E Information Science & Engineering, B.E Information Science & Engineering at Visvesvaraya Technological University
Github Skills (10)
hpc10
devops10
python10
job-scheduler10
cicd10
testing9
docker8
dockers8
cloud-computing8
bash7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
openpbs/openpbs
Jun 2016 - Jan 2021
An HPC workload manager and job scheduler for desktops, clusters, and clouds.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:51 reviews, 28 commits, 29 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Kumar primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and stability of the OpenPBS workload manager. Their commits included bug fixes, such as extending `qterm` support and resolving interactive job issues. Furthermore, the user implemented improvements to the PTL framework and addressed issues related to sudo usage and temporary file cleanup, demonstrating a strong understanding of the system's architecture. They also demonstrated an understanding of the project's DevOps aspects by adding and refining the Azure pipeline CI.
slurmprovisioningschedulingclustersscheduler
kjakkali/pbspro
Jun 2016 - Jun 2022
Contributions:253 pushes, 49 branches in 6 years 1 month
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