Praveen Thangadancha
Senior Software Engineer at Broadcom
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolPraveen Thangadancha is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building and automating cloud-native CI/CD and distributed systems, currently contributing at Broadcom after a stint focused on Tanzu at VMware. He has strong hands-on experience in Go, Python, and shell scripting, and a proven track record hardening test automation and release pipelines—evident in contributions to the Red Hat gitops-operator where he improved KUTTL test reliability and CI build/push flows. Comfortable across developer and DevOps roles, he blends operator-level engineering with practical SDET discipline from earlier roles at redBus and TCS. Based in Bengaluru, he’s an active open-source contributor who enjoys tackling production reliability challenges and, off-hours, follows cricket with the same analytical curiosity he brings to systems design.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, A, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, A at G.Pulla Reddy engineering college
Github Skills (11)
kubernetes10
automation10
bash10
automations10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
test-automation9
openshift9
k8s-operator8
operator8
operator-sdk8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
redhat-developer/gitops-operator
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
An operator that gets you an ArgoCD for cluster configuration out-of-the-box on OpenShift along with the UI for visualizing environments.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 13 commits, 5 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Praveen primarily focused on enhancing the CI/CD pipeline and test automation within the GitOps operator repository. They updated scripts related to Kuttl tests, including adding environment variables, ignoring parallel tests under certain conditions and adding logic to untaint master nodes for HA tests. The contributions also involved modifying build and push processes. The user addressed specific test failures, suggesting a proactive approach to maintaining test reliability.
boxargocdout-of-the-boxopenshiftoperator
praveen4g0/go-simple-uploader
Jul 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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