Santhosh S
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Tamil Nadu, India
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolSanthosh S is a Senior Software Engineer with 9 years of experience building backend and distributed systems using Go, Python, MongoDB, Postgres, Docker and cloud-native tools. He has driven architectural rewrites and modularized backends at Microsoft to improve test coverage and reliability, and expanded adoption by shipping multiple Headlamp distributions (Minikube, Docker/Podman Desktop extensions, DigitalOcean marketplace and Helm). Previously at Kinvolk and Atlan he implemented OIDC/Keycloak integrations, observability with Prometheus/Grafana, and real-time data solutions using MongoDB change streams. An active open-source contributor, he strengthened Headlamp’s Kubernetes auth, multi-kubeconfig support and token refresh logic for a widely used CNCF UI. Based in Tamil Nadu, India, he pairs hands-on engineering with community outreach and mentorship, and brings a background in management studies that informs his product-focused approach.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
General Management Program, General Management Program at Stoa SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Vellore Institute of Technology
English, Tamil, Telugu, French, Hindi
Github Skills (9)
configuration-management10
kubernetes10
go10
backend10
back-end-development10
kubernetes-pods10
cloud-native9
user-authentication9
authentication9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/headlamp
Jul 2021 - Nov 2022
A Kubernetes web UI that is fully-featured, user-friendly and extensible
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:288 reviews, 54 commits, 106 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Santhosh primarily contributed to the backend of the Headlamp project, focusing on Kubernetes configuration management and token refresh logic. They implemented support for multiple kubeconfigs, allowing users to manage different Kubernetes clusters. Furthermore, the user addressed token refresh mechanisms, adding logic to refresh service account tokens and improving the overall authentication flow. They also fixed an issue related to CA file handling, ensuring the application's stability when dealing with misconfigured clusters.
kubernetes-uiweb-uiorchestrationdevopskinvolk
yolossn/headlamp
Sep 2022 - Nov 2023
An easy-to-use and extensible web UI for Kubernetes brought to you by Kinvolk.
Contributions:9 releases, 4 PRs, 141 pushes in 1 year 2 months
kuberneteskinvolkweb-uiextensible
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.