Om Saran
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOm Saran is a Senior Software Engineer based in California with nine years of experience building distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and scalable evaluation pipelines. At Apple he designs and operates a Swift-on-Server distributed computing platform used to run large-scale LLM and predictive code-completion evaluation workflows for Xcode. His background spans industry and academia—contributing award-winning research on crash consistency for persistent-memory file systems and shipping production features at Nutanix to enable custom hypervisor deployments on public cloud. Om is an active open-source contributor to high-profile projects like minikube, where he improved service-command UX, added JSON output and hardened tunnel concurrency and testing. He brings a pragmatic systems mindset that blends low-level correctness (concurrency, crash consistency) with production-grade engineering and automation.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Science and Engineering at PES UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
docker10
dockers10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
test-integration10
integration-testing10
container9
cicd9
cli8
clustering8
command-line-interface8
command-line8
cluster-computing8
json8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/minikube
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
Run Kubernetes locally
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:18 reviews, 2 PRs, 33 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Om primarily focused on enhancing the `minikube service` command, adding JSON output capabilities and implementing integration tests for it. They also addressed a bug related to incorrect output format handling within the `service list` command. Further contributions include implementing and refining a mechanism to ensure only one tunnel process runs simultaneously, along with associated error handling and locking mechanisms.
containerslocallyk8skubernetescncf
OmSaran/SplitFS
Mar 2020 - May 2022
SplitFS: persistent-memory file system that reduces software overhead (SOSP 2019)
Contributions:9 PRs, 99 pushes, 44 branches in 2 years 2 months
persistent-memorymemoryfspersistent-storagetarball
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