Sailaja Mada is a Senior Engineer with nearly two decades of experience specializing in cloud, virtualization, and identity services testing across products like ONTAP Select, Apache CloudStack, Citrix XenServer, and a wide array of LDAP and federation providers. She combines deep hands-on automation skills (Python/Marvin, Protractor, Selenium, PyTest) with protocol-level expertise in LDAP, SAML and WS-Fed to validate interoperability, performance, migration and multilingual market compatibility. At Citrix she was an Apache CloudStack committer and contributed test fixes and vGPU test cases to the upstream project, reflecting proven open-source impact on a major IaaS platform. Now at NetApp, she applies this cross-hypervisor experience (Xen, KVM, ESXi) and knowledge of networking and GPU integrations to complex cloud deployments and scaling challenges. Her background in competitor analysis of LDAP proxy servers and exposure to federation stacks and containerization shows a rare blend of QA rigor, systems-level debugging and architectural insight.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Software Systems, MS, Software Systems at BITS, Pilani
B Tech, Computer Science, B Tech, Computer Science at Sri Venkateswara University
Apache CloudStack is an opensource Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform
Role in this project:
Backend & QA Engineer
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Sailaja contributed to the Apache CloudStack project by addressing missing domain ID issues within VM deployment requests and fixing an invalid condition related to private service offerings. They also modified existing test cases and wrote new ones, including the vGPU BVT testcase to skip unsupported hypervisors. These modifications were primarily within the testing components, and focused on validating correct behavior in testing.
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