Murali Paluru
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Top SchoolMurali Paluru is a seasoned principal software engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native networking and container platforms, having driven core backend and DevOps work at Rancher Labs, SUSE, and DataPelago. He combines deep networking expertise—L2/L3 forwarding, multicast (IGMP/PIM), Broadcom ASIC datapaths—and hands-on systems programming in Go, C, and build systems to ship production-grade networking features for switches and monitoring appliances. His open-source contributions to Rancher projects span networking policy, cluster orchestration, and RKE certificate/audit improvements, showing a knack for fixing subtle distributed-network edge cases like hostport/nodeport hostnetwork issues. A frequent conference speaker, he blends low-level embedded and ASIC understanding with modern cloud architectures and CI/CD practices. Though rooted in networking hardware, he also pursues frontend/backend interests and iOS/Objective‑C work, reflecting a rare full-stack curiosity across silicon to cloud.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.E. (Bachelor of Engineering), Electronics & Instrumentation, B.E. (Bachelor of Engineering), Electronics & Instrumentation at Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceMS, MS at Purdue University
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Github Skills (24)
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
admin10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
rancher10
networking10
dockers10
java10
javas10
go10
api10
audit-logging10
kubernetes-pods10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
rancher/rancher
Aug 2017 - Mar 2020
Complete container management platform
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 77 commits, 63 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Murali's primary contributions revolve around enhancing the Rancher platform's networking and container management capabilities. Their work includes implementing features such as a namespace handler to add project ID labels, and making changes to the project network policy. They also worked on fixing hostport, nodeport, and hostnetwork related network policy issues. In addition, they've made updates to include support for additional images and a fix for etcd backup cleanup.
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rancher/rke
Jul 2019 - Feb 2020
Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE), an extremely simple, lightning fast Kubernetes distribution that runs entirely within containers.
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 15 commits, 9 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Murali contributed to the core functionality of the Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE) project by implementing and modifying code related to certificate management and audit logging configuration. They made changes to the command-line interface (CLI) to include version printing and update existing functionality with the new changes. The user also made changes to support event rate limiting in the kube-api configurations. These changes indicate the user is comfortable working in both backend logic and DevOps related activities.
kubernetesrancherrke
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