Niranjan Shankar
Senior Software Engineer - Azure Kubernetes Service at Microsoft
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNiranjan Shankar is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience specializing in cloud-native infrastructure and service meshes, currently focused on the Azure Kubernetes Service Istio-based add-on at Microsoft. He has deep hands-on expertise in mesh customization, policy enforcement, edge traffic management, multi-cluster operations, and building test and supportability infrastructure. Previously he contributed to the Open Service Mesh (OSM) project—improving deployment, observability, CI/CD, and monitoring—which underscores his strength in bridging DevOps and backend development for production-grade distributed systems. A Princeton Computer Science graduate, he also brings teaching experience helping students debug and master core CS concepts, reflecting clear communication and mentoring skills. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex networking and security requirements into reliable, testable platform features that scale.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Class Salutatorian , Class Salutatorian at Hightstown High SchoolBachelor of Science in Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Engineering Computer Science at Princeton University
Github Skills (11)
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
go10
go-testing10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
helm9
grafana9
prometheus9
bash7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openservicemesh/osm
Sep 2020 - Nov 2022
Open Service Mesh (OSM) is a lightweight, extensible, cloud native service mesh that allows users to uniformly manage, secure, and get out-of-the-box observability features for highly dynamic microservice environments.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:150 reviews, 152 commits, 143 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Niranjan's contributions primarily revolve around improving the deployment and observability of the Open Service Mesh project. They implemented features to decouple Grafana and Prometheus installation, updated and improved end-to-end tests, and added a service count metric. Furthermore, they fixed issues related to the demo setup, corrected release note generation, and refactored code to utilize `mapset`. Their work spans the installation, testing, and monitoring aspects of the service mesh.
observabilitymicroservicesecuremicroservicesextensible
Azure/osm-azure
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
Open Service Mesh (OSM) on Azure
Contributions:14 releases, 133 reviews, 123 commits in 2 years 4 months
meshosmazureservice-meshopen-service-mesh
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