Ramakrishnan P
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRamakrishnan P is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft with over two decades of professional experience and nine years documented in senior roles, known for delivering high-quality, user-focused software across consumer and enterprise products. He has deep experience across product areas including Sway, Excel charting, Xbox support, and cloud-native tooling, and has moved fluidly from hands-on development to architectural and delivery responsibilities. A collaborator at heart, he emphasizes teamwork and practical solutions, shaped by early exposure to programming languages from Logo to Fortran and a lifelong drive to make people’s lives easier through technology. He has contributed to open-source cloud projects such as the Azure Application Gateway Kubernetes Ingress by hardening its build and CI processes, reflecting a knack for improving developer workflows and maintainability. Based in Redmond, he combines product empathy with systems-thinking to create features and infrastructure that scale across large organizations.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Chemical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Chemical Engineering at University of Calicut
English, Hindi, Malayalam
Github Skills (16)
build-engine10
kubernetes10
automation10
build-tools10
automations10
ingress-controller10
go10
buildr10
kubernetes-pods10
cicd10
dockers9
microsoft-azure9
k8s9
azure9
docker9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/application-gateway-kubernetes-ingress
Sep 2018 - Apr 2019
This is an ingress controller that can be run on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to allow an Azure Application Gateway to act as the ingress for an AKS cluster.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:16 commits, 13 PRs, 18 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Ramakrishnan primarily contributed to improving the build and CI/CD process for the application. This included fixing the build script to exclude `govet` on vendored packages, adding `goimports` to the build script for code formatting, and addressing code review comments to refine the build steps. Their changes ensured the project's build process was more robust and that code followed consistent style guidelines. These improvements streamlined the development workflow and enhanced the project's maintainability.
actkubernetes-servicecontrollerazure-kubernetesagic
lastcoolnameleft/application-gateway-kubernetes-ingress
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
This is an ingress controller that can be run on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to allow an Azure Application Gateway to act as the ingress for an AKS cluster.
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
actkubernetes-servicecontrollerazure-kubernetesingress-controller
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