Sandhya Dasu
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Acton, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSandhya Dasu is a Principal Software Engineer with 11+ years focused on distributed systems, networking, and cloud-native infrastructure, currently shaping OpenShift bare-metal capabilities at Red Hat. She transitioned from deep embedded and IOS‑XR platform work at Cisco to upstream OpenStack and Kubernetes operator development, blending low-level device-driver experience with modern DevOps practices. Her open-source contributions include significant enhancements to the OpenShift installer, metal3 baremetal-operator, and machine-api-operator—practical work that powers Single Node OpenShift and automated bare-metal provisioning. Based in Acton, MA, she’s known for pragmatic problem solving that spans bootstrapping clusters to power-management logic in provisioning controllers. Colleagues rely on her to bridge hardware constraints and cloud orchestration, often surfacing non-obvious robustness fixes such as force-flags and CI changes that improve real-world operator uptime.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering at Pune Institute of Computer TechnologyMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Engineering at Cornell University
English, Hindi, Telugu
Github Skills (26)
kubernetes10
docker10
bare-metal10
testing10
bash10
provisioning10
containerization10
dockers10
cicd10
crt10
iron10
automation10
go10
openshift10
irony10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/machine-api-operator
Jul 2019 - Dec 2020
Machine API operator
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 21 commits, 27 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Sandhya integrated the baremetal-operator with the machine-api-operator to deploy the metal3 pod. They modified code related to baremetal deployment, including configuration, init containers, and container definitions. The user added functionality to read provisioning configurations from a new CRD and updated the baremetal configuration. Further contributions included updates to image names, and changes to accommodate Baremetal UPI deployments.
operator-sdkapioperatorkuberneteskubernetes-operator
openshift/installer
Jun 2021 - Dec 2022
Install an OpenShift 4.x cluster
Role in this project:Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:338 reviews, 13 commits, 84 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Sandhya's commits focused on enhancing the OpenShift installer, particularly concerning Single Node OpenShift (SNO) deployments. They implemented validations and updated default network configurations for SNO, switching to OVNKubernetes. The user also added API and API-Int server URLs to the bootstrap template and added checks for the same. Their work involved modifying installation configurations and scripts related to cluster bootstrapping and verification.
gcpvmsansiblelibvirtopenshift
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