Ramyasree Chakka
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Cumming, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRamyasree Chakka is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with 17+ years of software development experience, currently leading platforms that enable additional capabilities on AKS and Azure Arc clusters and grow the 3P Kubernetes app ecosystem in Azure Marketplace. She has deep expertise in Azure Policy for Kubernetes and data-plane guardrails, and served on the Azure Resource Manager API Review Board shaping API modeling and standards. A hands-on leader, she continues to contribute to open-source Azure projects—helping maintain AgentBaker provisioning images and refining Azure PowerShell policy modules—bridging platform architecture with DevOps execution. Trained at IIT Madras (MTech) and with a long tenure at Microsoft, she combines rigorous engineering discipline with product-focused platform strategy to enable partners and developers at scale.
7 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasBachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science at Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Tirupati
Github Skills (22)
kubernetes10
docker10
microsoft-azure10
policies10
dockers10
azure-policy10
azure-powershell10
kubernetes-pods10
arm10
powershell10
azure10
cloud-init9
bash9
csharp9
dotnet-core9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/AgentBaker
May 2020 - Dec 2021
Agent Baker is aiming to provide a centralized, portable k8s agent node provisioning lib as well as rich support on different OS image with optimized k8s binaries.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 10 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Ramyasree primarily focused on updating and maintaining add-on images related to Azure Policy within the `agentbaker` repository. Their contributions involved modifying the `install-dependencies.sh` script to update the versions of various container images, including gatekeeper, external-dns, and Azure Policy-related components. They regularly updated image versions and made adjustments to the image order, ensuring the correct dependencies are available for agent baking. This work directly supports the provisioning of Kubernetes agent nodes.
provisioningvhdagentcloud-initaiming
Azure/azure-powershell
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
Microsoft Azure PowerShell
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 19 days
Contributions summary:Ramyasree primarily contributed to the Azure PowerShell module, focusing on policy-related features. Their work involved updating API versions, modifying policy definition parameters, and adjusting help strings for improved usability. They also made changes to existing code related to policy definitions and their modes. These modifications suggest a focus on refining the functionality and documentation of Azure policy management within the PowerShell module.
microsoft-azure-powershellpowershellmicrosoft-azuremicrosoftazure
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