Pavan Chandrashekar
Staff Software Engineer at GitHub
Vancouver, British Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPavan Chandrashekar is a Staff Software Engineer with 11+ years building high-performance infrastructure across kernels, storage, networking and cloud services, currently driving reliability and routing at GitHub. He pairs deep kernel and systems expertise—years of Solaris/Linux kernel work, Infiniband/RDMA, and low-latency PCIe storage—with ML-informed logging and pipeline infrastructure developed at Oracle. At GitHub he architected parts of Enterprise Cloud data residency, stood up and migrated edge sites, and maintains the GitHub Load Balancer for both public and internal traffic. An active backend and DevOps contributor to notable open-source projects (including enhancements to octodns and GitHub's glb-director), he focuses on measurable performance, observability and operational safety. Colleagues rely on him for clear infrastructure documentation and pragmatic designs that bridge hardware realities with scalable cloud deployments.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BE Computer Science and Engineering, BE Computer Science and Engineering at Bangalore Institute of Technology
Github Skills (14)
go10
dns10
python10
networking9
infrastructure-as-code9
network9
net9
workflow-engine8
bpf8
cicd7
dockers5
docker5
kubernetes4
kubernetes-pods4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
github/glb-director
Aug 2021 - Jan 2022
GitHub Load Balancer Director and supporting tooling.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 11 commits, 5 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Pavan primarily contributed to the project's backend functionality and infrastructure. They implemented port range support within the XDP director, updated health check timeouts, and improved the robustness of the system. The user also addressed code review comments and incorporated checks to enforce limits within the system's operational parameters. Furthermore, the user bumped the version of the director and healthcheck and added descriptions to better define code functions.
golangtoolingbgpdirectorsupporting
octodns/octodns
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
Tools for managing DNS across multiple providers
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 29 commits, 8 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Pavan primarily worked on enhancing the NS1 provider within the octodns project, addressing a specific issue related to the handling of the Oceania region. Their contributions involved modifying the provider code to correctly handle countries in Oceania, which are not directly supported as regions by NS1. The changes include adding logic to accurately map Oceania countries and integrating a country-based filter into the NS1 filter chain. These improvements ensure accurate DNS management across multiple providers, as indicated by the repository's description.
dnsprovidersdns-recordinfrastructure-as-codeworkflow
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