Rajashree Mandaogane
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
Cupertino, California, United States
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Top SchoolRajashree Mandaogane is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and Kubernetes tooling, currently at Apple in Cupertino. She has a strong Golang and DevOps background from roles at AWS EKS and Rancher Labs, where she contributed to prominent projects like eks-anywhere and RKE, and led work on backup/restore operators, authentication, and zero-downtime upgrades. An active open-source contributor and speaker at KubeCon, Helm Summit and All Things Open, she blends deep systems knowledge (external etcd, Cluster API, vSphere integrations) with practical reliability improvements such as retry logic and cgroup pinning. Known for turning complex cluster management challenges into production-ready features, she also shares learning via blogs and conference talks to help grow the community.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Maharashtra Institute of Technology
English, Marathi, Hindi, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (29)
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rke10
docker10
pytest10
python10
configuration-management10
etcd10
dockers10
cicd10
cattle10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
orchestration10
orchestra10
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
aws/eks-anywhere
Sep 2021 - Apr 2022
Run Amazon EKS on your own infrastructure 🚀
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 135 reviews, 75 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Rajashree primarily contributed to the core functionality and infrastructure of the eks-anywhere project. Their work included modifications to the external etcd configuration and integration with vSphere, appending disk space requirements. They addressed issues by pinning cgroupDriver for Kubernetes versions and adding retries to the SSM command execution. The user's commits demonstrate a strong understanding of Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and system administration.
kubernetes-deploymentamazon-ekstinkerbellhelmamazon
rancher/rke
Aug 2019 - Nov 2020
Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE), an extremely simple, lightning fast Kubernetes distribution that runs entirely within containers.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 65 commits, 67 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Rajashree primarily contributed to enhancing the RKE (Rancher Kubernetes Engine) project by adding features related to network and monitoring addons, including node selectors. They introduced support for extra environment variables, volumes, and volume mounts for the ingress addon. The user also refactored the upgrade strategy logic for zero-downtime upgrades and made modifications to prevent upgrade errors. Moreover, they worked on parsing and handling update strategies, replicas, and autoscaler configurations.
containerslightningdockerrkerancher
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