Rashmi Chandrashekar
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRashmi Chandrashekar is a Principal Software Engineer based in Bellevue, Washington, with eight years of professional experience and a strong background in cloud-native infrastructure and DevOps. At Microsoft she has progressed from software engineer to principal, focusing on production-grade Kubernetes tooling and container monitoring, including hands-on contributions to Azure's aks-engine and its precursor acs-engine. Her work shows a pragmatic flair for reliability—regularly updating monitoring agents, templates, and YAML configurations to keep telemetry and testing current with new releases. Trained with an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University and a BE in Computer Science, she blends formal systems education with practical operational improvements. Colleagues would note her attention to detail in templating and agent integration that quietly prevents outages and improves observability across large Azure deployments.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Engineering at Syracuse UniversityBE computer science and engineering, BE computer science and engineering at national institute of engineering
Github Skills (16)
kubernetes10
azure10
container10
docker10
go10
microsoft-azure10
containerization10
dockers10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
e2e9
e2e-test9
orchestration9
orchestra9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/aks-engine
Jan 2019 - Apr 2021
AKS Engine: legacy tool for Kubernetes on Azure (see status)
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 8 commits, 15 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Rashmi primarily focused on updating and configuring the container monitoring addon for the AKS Engine, frequently modifying configurations to utilize the latest versions and address various issues. Their contributions involved adjusting images, versions, and settings related to the omsagent, as well as modifying the generated templates. These changes aimed at improving monitoring capabilities, addressing indentation issues, and incorporating new releases.
containersgolangorchestrationaks-enginestatus
Azure/acs-engine
Jun 2018 - Dec 2018
WE HAVE MOVED: Please join us at Azure/aks-engine!
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 11 PRs, 20 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Rashmi primarily focused on enhancing the container monitoring capabilities within the ACS Engine project. They updated configuration files and implemented new tests, specifically ensuring the proper function of the omsagent and associated plugins, including those for container and node inventory, and cadvisor. The contributions included modifying YAML files to leverage the latest container images and updates. These changes directly improved monitoring functionality and testing within the Kubernetes environment.
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