Michelle Dhanani
Principal Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolMichelle Dhanani is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in Kubernetes, cloud-native systems, and developer tooling, fluent in Go, Ruby, Java, and C++. A founding engineer at Fermyon (acquired by Akamai) and current Principal at Akamai, she blends hands-on backend and DevOps work—contributing to projects like the Spin WebAssembly serverless framework—with governance experience as a former CNCF Governing Board and Technical Oversight Committee member. Her background spans startups and major cloud vendors, where she focuses on distributed systems and improving end-user developer experiences. With a Computer Science degree and research roots at the University of Georgia, she brings both academic rigor and pragmatic product sensibility to open source-first infrastructure. An often-overlooked strength is her track record of moving projects from prototype to production while participating at the highest levels of cloud-native stewardship.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of Georgia
Arabic, urdu/hindi, French
Github Skills (13)
spin10
rust10
webassembly10
back-end-development10
serverless9
command-line-interface8
command-line8
cli8
devops8
configuration-management7
dockers5
docker5
git4
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
spinframework/spin
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
Spin is the open source developer tool for building and running serverless applications powered by WebAssembly.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:268 reviews, 68 commits, 115 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Michelle contributed to the development and maintenance of the Spin framework. Their work includes enhancing the HTTP template by incorporating local wit files and updating bindings. They also improved the engine's functionality by handling component source paths correctly and implemented a feature to log stdout and stderr from components to files. Furthermore, the user added a deploy command to package, upload, and deploy applications to the Hippo platform.
secureserverlesswebassemblycomposablemicroservices
spinframework/spin-rust-sdk
Jan 2023 - Mar 2025
Spin SDK for Rust
Contributions:3 reviews, 14 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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