Sahana Chandrashekar
Member Of Technical Staff at VMware
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSahana Chandrashekar is a software engineer with 8 years of experience specializing in networking and orchestration for software-defined platforms, currently a Member of Technical Staff at VMware in Sunnyvale. She has built end-to-end features at Juniper that enable zero-packet-loss controller-assisted upgrades, on-demand hardware inventory discovery, and detection of manual device changes—skills that span backend engineering and DevOps. Her contributions to the open-source Contrail Controller include Ansible, Jinja, and Swift improvements for hitless image upgrades and more resilient deployment workflows. Comfortable across cloud-native tools like Docker and OpenStack Swift, she also has practical experience implementing role-based access control for microservices. With a Master’s in Computer Science from Arizona State and a history of shipping production automation for service providers, she combines systems thinking with operational rigor. An often-overlooked strength is her cross-domain fluency from low-level orchestration to deployment tooling, which helps bridge developer and operator needs.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
The East West SchoolMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at PES University
Kannada, English, Hindi
Github Skills (8)
ansible-galaxy10
jinjava10
ansible10
devops9
python9
opencore9
configuration-management9
networking8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Juniper/contrail-controller
Mar 2018 - Aug 2020
Contrail Controller
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:174 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Sahana made several contributions related to image upgrade changes and configuration modifications within the Contrail Controller repository. These changes involved modifications to Ansible playbooks and the swift file utility, including the addition of configurable swift connection retry counts, and the implementation of a sanity test for the image upgrade workflow. The user also contributed to changes in the Jinja templates for hitless image upgrades and configuration pushing, suggesting a focus on deployment and system administration tasks. These changes indicate a combination of back-end and DevOps activities.
controlleropencontrail-core-projectopencontrail
Juniper/contrail-specs
Sep 2018 - Mar 2020
Repository for docs and specs
Contributions:7 commits in 1 year 5 months
specs
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