Sameer Kulkarni
Principal Engineer at Improving
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSameer Kulkarni is a Principal Engineer based in Pune with over a decade of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and orchestration solutions. He has progressed from technology analyst roles at Infosys to technical leadership and principal engineering positions at InfraCloud (now Improving), where he focuses on scalable, production-ready platform engineering. Sameer is a hands-on back-end developer and notable open-source contributor, having implemented CRDs, clientsets, and an operator/controller to integrate YugabyteDB with the widely used Rook storage orchestration for Kubernetes. He combines deep API and controller-level expertise with practical attention to resource limits and operational robustness. Known for bridging core system design and delivery, he brings both team leadership and individual contributor strengths to complex distributed systems. His background suggests a pragmatic engineer who prefers solving infrastructure challenges at the controller and API layer rather than surface-level tooling.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Bachelor of Engineering - BE at Solapur University, Solapur
Github Skills (11)
kubernetes10
go10
develop10
kubernetes-pods10
operator10
yaml9
storage7
docker6
dockers6
etcd5
ceph4
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
rook/rook
Aug 2019 - Mar 2020
Storage Orchestration for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 13 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Sameer contributed to the YugabyteDB integration with Rook, focusing on the implementation of custom resource definitions (CRDs). They added CRD types and specifications, including generated deepcopy and clientset code. The user implemented an operator/controller to manage YugabyteDB clusters within the Kubernetes environment, and added resource limits. This involved modifications to core files related to the API definitions, client interactions, and the operator's control logic.
etcddata-protectionorchestrationdockerceph
samkulkarni20/static-content
Dec 2015 - Nov 2019
Contributions:4 PRs, 10 pushes, 9 branches in 4 years
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