Oum Kale
Software Engineer - R&D Team at LitmusChaos
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolOum Kale is a software engineer with 7 years of experience building cloud-native tools and operators, currently on the R&D Installer team at JFrog where she works on Kubernetes operators, Helm charts, Vault-based secret management and vulnerability mitigation. A long-time maintainer of the CNCF-incubating LitmusChaos project, she contributes across frontend and backend—integrating GraphQL-driven UIs, refactoring workflow schedulers, and connecting dashboards to persistent storage—to help SREs practice chaos engineering at scale. Her stack spans Go, Python, Kubernetes, Docker and React, and she has hands-on experience delivering operators and charts for multi-cloud Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE). Beyond engineering, Oum serves on KubeCon program committees and leads community OSS projects focused on accessibility and career guidance, showing a blend of technical stewardship and social impact. An international-rated chess player, she brings strategic thinking and competitive problem-solving to distributed systems and resilience engineering.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar
English, Marathi, Hindi
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
wpgraphql10
front-end-development10
wordpress-graphql10
graphql10
react10
chaos-engineering9
kubernetes9
kubernetes-pods9
cloud-native9
go6
yaml6
docker6
environment-variables6
python6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
litmuschaos/litmus
Aug 2020 - Jun 2022
Litmus helps SREs and developers practice chaos engineering in a Cloud-native way. Chaos experiments are published at the ChaosHub (https://hub.litmuschaos.io). Community notes is at https://hackmd.io/a4Zu_sH4TZGeih-xCimi3Q
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:95 reviews, 37 commits, 52 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Oum primarily worked on the frontend of a web application within the LitmusChaos project. Their contributions involved integrating GraphQL APIs for workflow creation, implementing UI components, and refactoring existing code for workflow scheduling and bug fixes. They also removed dummy data from templates and implemented target screens, demonstrating a focus on user interface and user experience improvements. Furthermore, the user worked on the backend, integrating with a database to fetch the data and creating the connection between the frontend and the backend.
chaosnotessite-reliability-engineeringoperatorchaos-experiments
oumkale/litmus-e2e
Mar 2021 - Jul 2021
Test the Chaos!!! An e2e (end-to-end) validation pipeline for the LitmusChaos infrastructure
Contributions:201 pushes, 5 branches in 3 months
chaosend-to-endpipelinevalidationinfrastructure
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