Poornima Suresh
Principal Software Engineer -3 at Progress
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolPoornima Suresh is a Principal Software Engineer based in Bengaluru with over 18 years of experience building and maintaining robust software and infrastructure for enterprise products. She combines deep expertise in Oracle Database and Java with hands-on leadership of engineering teams, currently advancing platform reliability and release engineering at Progress. Her open-source contributions to high-profile Chef projects show a strong focus on automation, cross-platform build pipelines, and dependency maintenance—work that helped add support for platforms like Rocky Linux and SLES. A Master of Technology in Computer Science, she is known for blending meticulous systems engineering with pragmatic release and DevOps practices that keep complex products shipping.
4 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Technology - MTech, Computer Science, FCD, Master of Technology - MTech, Computer Science, FCD at BIET , Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityBengaluru University
Github Skills (25)
dependency-manager10
dependency-management10
git10
package-management10
chef-client10
automation10
infrastructure10
go10
build-automation10
chef-solo10
automations10
devops10
scripting9
cicd9
cmake9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
chef/omnibus-software
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Open Source Software for use in Omnibus built packages
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:103 reviews, 324 commits, 331 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Poornima's contributions focused on updating and maintaining software dependencies within the `chef/omnibus-software` repository. Specifically, the user updated various versions of Go, cmake, git, and other libraries. The user also added and updated dependencies for projects that the software is used for such as OpenSearch, PostgreSQL. These changes indicate the user is focused on maintaining the build environment.
omnibusopen-source-software
chef/chef
Dec 2021 - Nov 2022
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 19 commits, 75 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Poornima primarily contributed to the automation and infrastructure aspects of the Chef Infra project. They focused on configuring and maintaining build and test pipelines, adding support for new operating system platforms like Rocky Linux and SLES. Their work included modifying build scripts, integrating tools like Ruby cleanup, and setting up signing keys, demonstrating a focus on infrastructure and release management.
devopsdeploymentansibleinfrastructureinfra
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