Manoj Srivastava
Debian Developer
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolManoj Srivastava is a veteran Debian Developer and systems engineer with 24 years of experience building and hardening large-scale infrastructure, package management, and security tooling. He has held senior roles at Amazon and Google where he drove cost-saving and performance improvements for retail and SRE platforms, and he helped design fleet orchestration, profiling, and SELinux-based ingestion systems. As a long-time Debian contributor and co-editor of Debian Technical Policy, he has influenced kernel packaging, package management tools, and SELinux support while serving on the project’s technical committee and formerly as Project Secretary. His open-source work includes DevOps-focused image tooling—enhancing authentication and configuration in a notable bootstrap-vz repository—illustrating a practical focus on reproducible, secure images. Based in Redmond, Washington, he combines deep systems-level expertise with a track record of pragmatic engineering that yields measurable operational and security gains.
24 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
B. Tech (Hons) Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering, B. Tech (Hons) Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology KharagpurM. S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, M. S. Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Hindi
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Github Skills (9)
system-administration10
configuration-management10
bootstrapping10
python10
debian10
ssh10
bash9
githubaction-workflow5
github-ci5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
andsens/bootstrap-vz
Sep 2015 - Feb 2016
Bootstrap Debian images for virtualized environments
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 31 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Manoj primarily focused on enhancing the `admin_user` plugin within the repository. Their contributions involved adding support for password and public key authentication, offering multiple access methods. They also modified the build process, with commits focused on setting timezone information. These changes suggest a focus on system configuration and image customization, typical of a DevOps role.
virtualizeddockerdebianbootstrapenvironments
srivasta/home.vcsh.emacs
Mar 2015 - Jul 2021
Contributions:73 pushes in 6 years 5 months
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