Prachi Damle
Engineering Manager at SUSE
United States
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Top SchoolPrachi Damle is an engineering manager with 10+ years building and operationalizing cloud-native infrastructure, currently leading engineering at SUSE after a long tenure at Rancher Labs. She combines hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—particularly around authentication, authorization, and Kubernetes orchestration—with people leadership and delivery ownership. Her open-source work on flagship Rancher projects (cattle, rke, rancher, fleet) shows a pragmatic focus on secure identity integration, token APIs, dependency hygiene, and scalable Git-to-cluster deployments. Comfortable shifting between code, system configuration, and operational improvements, she brings a security-minded engineering lens to platform reliability. An Apache CloudStack committer earlier in her career, she blends enterprise-grade distributed systems experience with a track record of hardening critical infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Pune Institute of Computer Technology
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
ldap10
kubernetes10
rke10
authorizations10
docker10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
fleet10
authentication10
user-authentication10
dockers10
cicd10
java10
security10
gitops10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rancher/rancher
Jan 2018 - Nov 2022
Complete container management platform
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:287 reviews, 249 commits, 251 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Prachi's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the token API, adding GitHub provider implementations, and modifying cluster configuration. They made changes to utilize a token API, incorporating changes in server-side files. Furthermore, the user introduced a GitHub provider implementation, which involved creating several files related to authentication providers. These contributions suggest a focus on security, authentication, and possibly integrating the platform with external services.
containersorchestrationdockerrancherkubernetes
rancher/fleet
Sep 2020 - Jul 2022
Deploy workloads from Git to large fleets of Kubernetes clusters
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:54 reviews, 22 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Prachi primarily focused on maintaining and improving the `fleet` project. Their contributions involved updating dependencies such as `go-getter`, and refactoring code related to bundle deployments and cluster management. They also implemented changes to prune bundles and associated resources, particularly when the source git repository was updated. This included modifying the application's command-line interface for applying resources.
clusterskubernetes-clustersk8skubernetesgitops
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