Rakesh H S
Software Engineering Technical Leader at Cisco
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolRakesh H S is a Software Engineering Technical Leader with 12 years of experience building cloud-native, microservices-driven platforms using Golang, Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS. He has driven security-focused cloud transformations at Cisco—designing SSE/CSAL microservices and enabling low-touch onboarding and telemetry for distributed devices—while also contributing upstream to OpenStack projects during his tenure at HP. Known for pragmatic, reliability-first engineering, he has deep hands-on experience fixing edge-case failures in OpenStack Heat and improving orchestration robustness, including introducing sync_point table enhancements. Equally comfortable in product-facing and infrastructure roles, he blends infrastructure-as-code and observability practices to ship resilient services at scale. Based in Bengaluru, he pairs enterprise-grade delivery with active open-source credibility from notable contributions to core cloud orchestration projects.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Information Science & Engineering, Distinction, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Information Science & Engineering, Distinction at Visvesvaraya Technological University
Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, English, Kannada
Github Skills (7)
debug10
openstack10
resource-management10
openstack-heat10
python10
heat10
sqlalchemy9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/heat
Jul 2014 - May 2016
OpenStack Orchestration (Heat). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:69 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Rakesh primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the robustness of the OpenStack Heat orchestration service. Their work involved addressing issues related to resource failures, stack deletion failures, and soft-deleted instances, ensuring the service handles these edge cases correctly. They also introduced enhancements like the sync_point table and made code modifications to improve logging and overall stability. The contributions demonstrate a focus on maintaining the stability and reliability of the Heat service.
opendevheatopenstackorchestration
AnoopPutta/service-manager
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:4 pushes in 3 days
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