Purnima Gopal

Seattle, Washington, United States

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Purnima Gopal is a results-driven technical leader with 13 years of experience delivering cloud, DevOps, SRE and release management for large financial, telecom and insurance clients across North America, UK and India. She has led cross-functional teams of 10+ through complex PCF and Azure migrations, JBOSS/Liberty modernizations and IoT platform rollouts, and planned 70+ releases spanning dev to production environments. Known for hands-on debugging and end-to-end ownership, she blends architecture and implementation: from legacy impact analysis and Git/SonarQube/Artifactory CI/CD integrations to HashiCorp Vault and load balancer setups. Her open-source contributions to high-profile Cluster API and GCP provider projects show a pragmatic focus on testability and operational reliability, while work on AI-assistant indexing demonstrates performance-oriented backend engineering. A mentor who has uplifted hundreds of engineers, she’s repeatedly recognized by clients with awards for quality delivery and process improvements. Based in Seattle, she combines delivery discipline with a penchant for pragmatic refactoring that measurably improves testability and automation.

13 years of coding experience

URSULINE CONVENT GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL RANCHI

DR MGR EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE CHENNAI

DAV PUBLIC HEHAL RANCHI

Github Skills (26)

kubernetes10

docker10

testing10

typescript10

cloud-infrastructure10

indexing10

dockers10

llm10

gcp10

huggingface10

go10

performance-optimization10

typescript-types10

kubernetes-pods10

cluster-api10

Programming languages (10)

TypeScriptJavaShellRustStarlarkScalaGoGroovy

Github contributions (5)

kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api

Apr 2018 - Jul 2018

Home for Cluster API, a subproject of sig-cluster-lifecycle

Role in this project:

Backend & DevOps Engineer

Contributions:48 commits, 51 PRs, 1 push in 3 months

Contributions summary:Purnima focused on refactoring the GCEClient to implement interfaces for mocking GCP compute services, facilitating better testing of the MachineActuator. They introduced a ComputeService interface with runtime implementations, improving testability. Further contributions include moving configurations to improve flexibility. The changes also include the addition of an option to set the disk size and type, while improving the reliability of cluster deletion.

apilifecyclesubprojectcluster-apisig

kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-gcp

Apr 2018 - Jun 2018

The GCP provider implementation for Cluster API

Role in this project:

Back-end & DevOps Engineer

Contributions:24 commits, 1 comment, 4 issues in 2 months

Contributions summary:Purnima primarily focused on improving the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) provider for Cluster API. Their contributions included refactoring the `GCEClient` to enable mocking for testing by implementing an interface around the compute service. The user also added functionalities for configuring disk size and type. Additionally, they made changes to enhance the `gce-machine-controller`, including adding functionality to fetch the kubeadm join token and improving the firewall rules.

gcpapiprovidergoogle-cloud-platformcluster-api

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