Pooja Kulkarni
Open Source Developer at OpenCraft
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolPooja Kulkarni is an Open Source Developer with 10 years of experience building and operating production-grade Python backends and full-stack features, currently maintaining the Open edX platform at OpenCraft. She brings proven expertise in DevOps and automation—modifying Ansible playbooks, Helm charts and Kustomize—to streamline deployment, log syncing to object storage, and supervisor management for distributed services like Celery. Her contributions span both frontend and backend on large-scale education software, including video access controls and theme compilation for the globally used Open edX LMS. Earlier roles include senior backend work on OpenStack Nova at Rackspace and leading backend engineering for an AI-driven B2B sales startup, showing comfort across cloud, messaging, and ML-adjacent systems. Trained as an electronics engineer, she pairs embedded-systems roots with a decade of open-source collaboration, making her effective at bridging low-level constraints and scalable web infrastructure. Based in Old Toronto, she blends hands-on coding with platform stewardship, often tackling deployment and access-edge problems that many maintainers overlook.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electronics and Communications Engineering at Vemana Institute Of TechnologyKendriya Vidyalaya N.A.L
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Github Skills (30)
docker10
javascript10
python10
django10
configuration-management10
dockers10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
data-service9
develop9
cicd9
webservice9
yaml9
backend9
shell8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openedx-unsupported/configuration
Nov 2018 - Dec 2021
A collection of edx configuration scripts and utilities that edx.org uses to deploy openedx.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 13 commits, 7 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Pooja primarily contributes to the configuration and deployment aspects of the edx platform. Their work involves modifying Ansible playbooks, specifically to sync logs to object storage and to manage supervisor configurations for services like Celery beat and workers, demonstrating proficiency in automation and infrastructure management. The commits also include updating build and deployment configurations with helm charts and Kustomize.
pythonconfiguration-managementansibleedxconfiguration-scripts
openedx/edx-platform
Dec 2018 - Dec 2022
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:80 reviews, 17 commits, 36 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Pooja contributed to the Open edX platform by implementing features related to video content visibility for unenrolled users and public courses. Their work involved modifying both frontend and backend code, specifically focusing on the `VideoModule` class and associated JavaScript files. They addressed issues related to user access and cohort assignment, ensuring the correct display of content for various user roles and course types. Additionally, the user made changes related to theme compilation and the addition of a completion progress bar.
edxlmssitesbackend-serviceopen-edx
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