Natasha Sarkar
Software Engineer at Google
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNatasha Sarkar is a software engineer with a decade of experience specializing in Kubernetes, GKE, and Google Cloud, currently improving node utilization for AI/ML workloads at Google. She has led kustomize and chaired the Kubernetes SIG CLI, combining technical stewardship of widely used open-source tooling with hands-on contributions to projects like kpt and kubectl experimental. Her work spans backend systems for large-scale Kubernetes configuration management (Config Sync, fleet packages) and pragmatic code improvements—linting, refactors, and targeted bug fixes—that keep complex build and pipeline tooling reliable. Prior internships at Microsoft and EA and a CS degree from UCLA underpin a solid foundation in systems engineering and software delivery. Colleagues can rely on her for both strategic platform design and detailed, test-driven fixes that materially improve developer workflows.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science & Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles
English, Bengali, Spanish
Github Skills (14)
yaml10
kpt10
configuration-management10
kubernetes10
go10
k8s10
kubernetes-pods10
cli10
testing10
kubectl9
computer-engineering8
cicd7
api6
apidoc6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kptdev/kpt
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
Automate Kubernetes Configuration Editing
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 543 reviews, 72 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Natasha primarily contributed to the implementation and testing of functions related to filtering and resolving resources within the `kpt` project. Their work involved adding and testing functions within the internal pipeline and executor packages, specifically focusing on filtering metadata and resolving sources. These changes required the modification of core files related to the project's internal pipeline infrastructure and the addition of unit tests. The user also added a basic end-to-end test for the pipeline's run command.
kubernetes-configurationshift-leftpolicy-as-codeconfig-as-datakrm
kubernetes-sigs/kustomize
Sep 2020 - Dec 2022
Customization of kubernetes YAML configurations
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1027 reviews, 279 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Natasha contributed to the kustomize project by fixing bugs related to the application of patches, specifically addressing issues with namespace and port handling. They also refactored code related to resource handling and name resolution. Their work involved making changes to the core plugin and filter logic of the kustomize project.
yamlcuelangkubectlkuberneteskubelet
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