Nandaja Varma
Senior Software Engineer at Ona (formerly Gitpod)
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolNandaja Varma is a Senior Software Engineer based in Milan with 13 years of experience and a decade of hands-on programming across full-stack, systems, and DevOps/SRE roles. He has driven Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure work at Ona (formerly Gitpod) and contributed to major open-source projects like Gitpod and GlusterFS, improving CI/CD, installer/configuration tooling, and fixing systemic vulnerabilities. Comfortable shifting between backend systems architecture and operational engineering, he favors clean system design and well-documented code that scales. A Politecnico di Milano master’s graduate with roots in Red Hat and leadership experience as a technical lead, he blends rigor from enterprise projects with pragmatism from open-source collaboration. Notably, his contributions span both infra-level CI/CD and deep codebase fixes, reflecting a rare cross-cutting strength in reliability and developer experience.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at University of CalicutMaster's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Science and Engineering at Politecnico di MilanoHigher Secondary, Computer Science, Higher Secondary, Computer Science at Vivekodayam Boys' Higher Secondary School
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Github Skills (28)
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kubernetes10
filesystem10
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storage10
distributed-systems10
c1110
cicd10
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c1710
go10
installer10
cloud-platform10
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kubernetes-pods10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
gitpod-io/gitpod
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
The developer platform for on-demand cloud development environments to create software faster and more securely.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 241 reviews, 151 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Nandaja primarily focused on infrastructure and configuration improvements within the Gitpod project. They made changes related to the installer, including validating configuration fields, setting service types, and adding scripts for building config documentation. They also worked on the backend side by fixing fallback mechanisms for licenses and addressing service-related configurations. Furthermore, the user contributed to setting up the CI/CD pipeline.
automatestheiadev-environmentdisposabledevcontainer
gluster/glusterfs
Feb 2015 - Jul 2015
Gluster Filesystem : Build your distributed storage in minutes
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & System Architect
Back-end Developer & System ArchitectContributions:56 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Nandaja primarily focused on fixing coverity issues across various modules of the GlusterFS project. Their contributions involved code changes in the rpc-lib, marker, fuse, snapview, qemu-block, and cli modules, indicating a broad understanding of the system. These changes addressed potential code vulnerabilities and improved the overall stability and reliability of the distributed file system. Additionally, the user implemented a new logging framework for snapshot messages, signifying architectural improvements in the snapshot management component.
erasure-codingstoragepersistent-storagedistributed-storagefuse-filesystem
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