Rithu John
Senior Engineering Manager at Crusoe
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRithu John is a Senior Engineering Manager based in San Francisco with nine years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, distributed systems, and secure developer tooling. She has led developer experience and infrastructure teams at Lyft and now Crusoe, combining hands-on backend and DevOps work with people leadership to improve productivity, reliability, and observability. Her open-source contributions include substantive backend work on Dex (OIDC/OAuth), OpenShift console integrations, and Kubernetes-focused projects like Clutch and the Tectonic installer, reflecting deep expertise in Kubernetes APIs, authentication flows, and release/test automation. Pragmatic and security-minded, she has a history of hardening systems to avoid runtime panics and improving error feedback, and she brings kernel- and storage-level experience from earlier work on Solaris/ZFS to inform systems-level decisions.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
French, Hindi, Malayalam
Github Skills (30)
kubernetes10
docker10
apidoc10
scripting10
testing10
authentication10
bash10
dockers10
terraform10
infrastructure-management10
cicd10
terraformer10
automation10
script10
go10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dexidp/dex
Oct 2016 - Sep 2018
OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity and OAuth 2.0 provider with pluggable connectors
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 155 commits, 175 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Rithu primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the dex project, focusing on features related to password management and gRPC API endpoints. They added gRPC endpoints for creating, updating, and deleting passwords. Furthermore, the user introduced a gRPC definition for the version endpoint and added a gRPC call for listing refresh tokens. The user also modified the code to include the OfflineSession object.
openidoidcprovideridpoauth-2
coreos/tectonic-installer
Apr 2017 - Dec 2017
Install a Kubernetes cluster the CoreOS Tectonic Way: HA, self-hosted, RBAC, etcd Operator, and more
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 releases, 74 commits, 81 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Rithu's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the release and testing infrastructure for the Tectonic installer. They updated release automation scripts, added and modified scripts to implement and run Kubernetes conformance tests. They also focused on configuring and integrating tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, and the Tectonic builder image. The user also updated the image versions for used tools.
etcdcoreoshostedoperatoretcd-operator
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