Rahul Somasundaram
Software Engineer III at Wayfair
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolRahul Somasundaram is a software engineer with about a decade of hands-on experience building cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and backend systems across SaaS and retail platforms. Currently a Software Engineer III at Wayfair, he previously led infrastructure and Kubernetes efforts at Checkpoint Systems—authoring Terraform, Helm charts, ArgoCD workflows and global traffic solutions with Azure Front Door and Nginx. He combines practical DevOps skills (Talos on-prem clusters, Docker Swarm to AKS migrations) with backend engineering, having implemented certificate management endpoints and TLS configurability for notable open-source projects like AdGuardHome and Nginx Proxy Manager. Rahul’s work shows a strong security and operability focus—improving TLS ciphers, HTTP/3 support, and certificate handling to make distributed services more configurable and resilient. Known for shipping pragmatic automation and monitoring (Datadog) and for bridging product needs with platform engineering, he brings both legacy system modernization and cloud-native best practices to delivery. Based in Bengaluru with a B.Tech in IT, he blends enterprise-grade infra experience with active contributions to respected open-source tooling.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
HSC, HSC at St.joseph's Matriculation Higher Secondary SchoolBachelor of Technology Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology Information Technology at Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering
English, Tamil
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Github Skills (37)
javascript10
web-proxy10
tls1210
back-end-development10
apidoc10
http10
nginx-reverse-proxy10
proxy10
tls1310
http-proxy10
mtls10
go10
api10
dns10
libtls10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
Network-wide ads & trackers blocking DNS server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 14 commits, 5 PRs in 16 days
Contributions summary:Rahul primarily focused on enhancing the security of the AdGuard Home project by modifying TLS configurations. Their contributions involved adding and reverting cipher suites, and implementing user-defined cipher preferences for HTTPS and HTTP/3. Furthermore, they added headers for HTTP/3 support and corrected spelling errors within the codebase. These changes reflect a focus on improving the security and configurability of the network-wide DNS server.
dns-over-tlsgolangdnsmasqadsdns
NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 13 commits, 1 PR in 9 days
Contributions summary:Rahul primarily focused on adding and modifying backend functionality for certificate management within the nginx-proxy-manager project. They implemented an endpoint to download certificates, incorporating a zip archive process. The user also fixed linting issues, corrected comments, and adjusted the certificate download path to ensure the proper certificates were being retrieved and downloaded. These changes involved modifications to backend files, demonstrating a focus on improving the functionality and usability of certificate handling.
nginxproxyhostsdockernginx-proxy
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