Kumarappan Chockalingam
Principal DevOps Engineer at ING Australia
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolKumarappan Chockalingam is a Principal DevOps Engineer based in Sydney with 10 years of experience building resilient CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure automation, configuration management, and container platforms for large financial services. At ING Australia he progressed from developer and release manager roles into senior DevOps leadership, driving release and environment management and operationalising Confluent Kafka platforms at scale. He combines hands-on backend contributions to notable open-source cloud tooling—such as fixes and integrations in the Apache Libcloud project—with enterprise-grade automation and orchestration expertise. Comfortable across Windows and Linux ecosystems, Kumarappan brings a practical blend of systems architecture, performance testing, and release discipline informed by a Master of Information Technology. Not obvious from titles: he has deep experience resolving tricky edge cases in cloud provider integrations, reflecting a knack for debugging complex distributed systems.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Information Technology IT, Master of Information Technology IT at University of South Australia
Github Skills (8)
libcloud10
apim10
api10
apache10
cloud-computing10
python10
networking9
testing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/libcloud
Feb 2016 - May 2016
Apache Libcloud is a Python library that hides differences between different cloud provider APIs and allows you to manage different cloud resources through a unified and easy-to-use API.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 1 comment in 2 months
Contributions summary:Kumarappan primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the Apache Libcloud project, focusing on cloud provider API integrations. Their commits involved fixing firewall rule creation, reordering element creation for load balancer pool members, and ensuring default protocols for listener configurations. They also addressed a specific issue related to handling null values when working with IP addresses, demonstrating proficiency in debugging and resolving edge-case scenarios within the cloud management library.
libcloudpythoncloudapache
DimensionDataCBUSydney/rancher-catalog
Aug 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:279 pushes in 5 months
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