Murali Krishnasamy
Principle Performance Engineer at Red Hat
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMurali Krishnasamy is a Principal Performance Engineer with five years focused on OpenShift and virtualization performance across cloud providers, now leading the Hypershift performance team at Red Hat. He combines deep hands-on experience in Ansible, Python, SR-IOV/DPDK networking and NFV with practical tuning of OpenStack and RHV platforms to optimize real-world telco and cloud workloads. Murali’s contributions to the widely used openshift/release tooling show his knack for CI/CD automation and infrastructure-level changes—everything from machine pool tuning to firewall and cloud-provider config for large-scale performance tests. Comfortable across system programming (C), databases (MongoDB), and orchestration, he bridges low-level network I/O optimizations with higher-level automation and testing frameworks. Based in New Jersey, he brings a practical engineering mindset honed over multiple production rollouts and performance investigations for telecom and hyperscaler environments.
6 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical & Electronics Engineering at Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy
English
Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
scripting10
cloud-infrastructure10
cicd10
automation10
script10
infrastructure10
openshift10
kubernetes-pods10
sh10
automations10
shell10
dockers9
gcp9
docker9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/release
Jul 2023 - Mar 2026
Release tooling for OpenShift
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:38 reviews, 38 PRs, 298 comments in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Murali's commits primarily focus on modifying and enhancing the CI/CD pipeline and automation scripts for OpenShift release tooling. The user implemented changes to the hypershift infrastructure, including adjustments to machine pool configurations and readiness checks. Furthermore, the user worked on integrating and configuring various components like slack reporters and firewall rules for performance testing. The changes involve adjustments to cloud provider configurations, security group rules, and port ranges for the data-path tests.
openshift
mukrishn/e2e-benchmarking
Aug 2021 - Apr 2026
Performance Tests for end Platforms
Contributions:8 PRs, 191 pushes, 30 branches in 4 years 9 months
benchmarkingtestingperformance-testsplatformssqf
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