Leela Gangavarapu
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolLeela Gangavarapu is a Senior Software Engineer with 7 years of experience building cloud-native storage and distributed systems, currently driving storage and security initiatives at Red Hat in Bengaluru. She has engineered core gRPC APIs for a Hub & Spoke storage model that cut new cluster deployment times by over 65% and led the convergence of multiple ODF modes to support thousands of production clusters. Deeply familiar with Kubernetes, OpenShift and AWS networking, she designed multi-tenant Transit Gateway architectures and added thin provisioning support to the TopoLVM CSI driver, contributing substantial backend changes and tests to the project. Leela combines hands-on SRE triage experience with product-minded features—such as a low-cost 2TB managed tier—that expanded market accessibility, and she often bridges QE and engineering to resolve complex upgrade and production issues. Perceptive and adaptable, she also contributes to open source and enjoys uncovering subtle system bugs, reflecting a pragmatic, security-conscious engineering approach.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies, RKValley (RAC)SSC (Class X), SSC (Class X) at Sri Sathya Sai EM School
English, Telugu, Hindi
Github Skills (9)
lvm10
kubernetes10
go10
csi10
kubernetes-pods10
protobuffer9
protobuf9
grpc9
testing8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
topolvm/topolvm
Mar 2022 - May 2022
Capacity-aware CSI plugin for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:55 reviews, 9 commits, 4 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Leela primarily contributed to enhancing the `topolvm/topolvm` repository, a CSI plugin for Kubernetes, by implementing features related to thin provisioning of logical volumes. Their work included modifying the `DeviceClass` struct and associated validation logic to support thin pools. They updated the `lvmd` protocol to include thinpool details and integrated these changes with the `vgservice` and `lvservice` RPCs, including implementing node annotation and metric support for thinpools. Unit tests were created to ensure functionality.
lvmcsi-plugincapacitycsi-driverkubernetes
red-hat-storage/ocs-client-operator
Sep 2023 - Apr 2025
An operator to define and connect storage consumers to an external OCS storage provider.
Contributions:540 reviews, 114 PRs, 879 comments in 1 year 6 months
providerstorage-provideroperatorocsconsumers
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