Raghuram Kannan
SDE at RingCentral
Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolRaghuram Kannan is an SDE based in Karnataka, India with four years of experience building backend systems and cloud-native tooling. He has contributed to high-profile open-source observability work as a backend and DevOps contributor to CNCF Jaeger—upgrading OpenTelemetry dependencies, removing legacy Elasticsearch support, and streamlining releases with helper binaries. Currently at RingCentral, he brings practical experience from a CNCF LFX mentorship and a Google Summer of Code project, showing a strong commitment to open-source collaboration. His background in Electronics and Communications from NITK complements a systems-minded approach to debugging, performance, and infrastructure. Raghuram also has leadership experience from IEEE NITK, reflecting both technical depth and community engagement. Notably, his contributions balance code quality (linting rules) with operational improvements, indicating attention to long-term maintainability.
4 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electronics and Communications Engineering at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
Github Skills (13)
distributed-tracing10
opentelemetry10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
observability10
go10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
tracer9
trace9
devops8
cnc7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jaegertracing/jaeger
May 2024 - Sep 2024
CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:77 reviews, 28 PRs, 99 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Raghuram contributed to the back-end functionality of the Jaeger project, specifically focusing on removing support for older versions of Elasticsearch. They also upgraded the OpenTelemetry (OTEL) dependencies, demonstrating a focus on the project's observability features. Further contributions involved adding Elasticsearch helper binaries to the release process and enabling various linting rules to improve code quality.
distributedtracingjaegertracingobservabilitycncf
FlamingSaint/jaeger
May 2024 - Aug 2024
Contributions:149 pushes, 49 branches in 3 months
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