Ragavendran Balakrishnan
Senior Member Of Technical Staff at Nutanix
Morrisville, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolRagavendran Balakrishnan is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Nutanix with eight years of experience designing and automating system tests for disaster recovery and cloud infrastructure. He combines a strong computer science and math background (MS, NC State) with hands-on QE and automation experience from Red Hat and Cisco, where he built CI tooling, Ansible playbooks, and high-efficiency test frameworks that cut validation timelines dramatically. Comfortable across distributed systems, OpenStack, and security-focused builds (FIPS), he has a track record of turning manual QA bottlenecks into repeatable pipelines and measurable metrics. Known for practical problem solving and analytical rigor, Ragavendran also contributed to open-source PulpQE and has deep interest in AI, graphics, and protocol-level design—skills he leverages to bridge product reliability and scalable automation.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, CoimbatoreMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at North Carolina State University
english, tamil
Github Skills (23)
bower10
rspec10
foundation9
web-application9
pulp9
vcl9
django9
rails9
quality-assurance9
docker9
redhat8
science8
ruby8
rubocop8
fixture7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ragabala/pulp-ci
Jun 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:164 pushes, 30 branches in 8 months
ragabala/expertiza
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:44 pushes in 1 month
nationalpeer-reviewnational-science-foundationsciencedjango
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