Prita Narayan
Staff Instructor at Cinema Ballroom
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolPrita Narayan is a software engineer with four years of experience building and testing cloud-native virtualization features, having contributed to KubeVirt and Red Hat’s OpenShift Virtualization. Based in Minneapolis, she combines backend Go development and test automation skills—fixing subtle bugs, sanitizing hard-coded strings, and refactoring test utilities—to improve maintainability in a high-impact open-source Kubernetes project. As an Associate Software Engineer at Red Hat she was an active community contributor, and she now applies her communication and teaching skills as a Staff Instructor at Cinema Ballroom. A Computer Science graduate from the University of Minnesota, Prita brings a mix of rigorous engineering practice and hands-on instruction experience, making her effective at translating complex technical concepts for diverse audiences. Notably, her contributions often address small but pervasive issues that prevent fragile tests and undefined references from slowing release velocity.
4 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Punahou SchoolUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
Github Skills (7)
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
virtualization9
libvirt8
test-automation8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kubevirt/kubevirt
Dec 2021 - Sep 2022
Kubernetes Virtualization API and runtime in order to define and manage virtual machines.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:112 reviews, 22 commits, 22 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Prita primarily contributed to the backend of the Kubevirt project by fixing typos, sanitizing hard-coded strings, and cleaning up test code. Their work involved modifying Go code within the `pkg/virt-operator`, `pkg/virt-handler`, and `tests` directories. The user also addressed undefined references to constants in test utilities, and refactored code for better maintainability by consolidating code blocks.
apivmsmachineslibvirtruntime
prnaraya/kubevirt
Dec 2021 - Feb 2022
Kubernetes Virtualization API and runtime in order to define and manage virtual machines.
Contributions:34 pushes, 8 branches in 2 months
vdiapivmsmachinesruntime
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