Senthil Chermapandian
Principal Software Engineer II - Cognitive Network Solutions at Ericsson
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Summary
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RockstarSenthil Chermapandian is a Principal Software Engineer II at Ericsson with over two decades of experience architecting cloud-native AI/ML platforms and large-scale, highly distributed machine learning systems. He specializes in MLOps, distributed systems, edge computing, Kubernetes and WebAssembly, and holds a Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) credential. At Ericsson he designs resilient platforms that bridge telecom and cloud domains, and maintains the open-source kube-fledged operator that speeds container startup by caching images on cluster nodes. A regular tech blogger, speaker and organizer of Kubernetes Community Days Chennai, he combines hands-on engineering with community building and mentorship. Outside work he stays curious—mentoring students, exploring new tech, and balancing long walks and terrace gardening with extempore bedtime stories for his kids.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
golang10
caching10
kubernetes10
container10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
operator10
code-generation9
docker8
cicd8
dockers8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
senthilrch/kube-fledged
Sep 2018 - Nov 2022
A kubernetes operator for creating and managing a cache of container images directly on the cluster worker nodes, so application pods start almost instantly
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 releases, 25 reviews, 424 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Senthil primarily contributed to the initial setup and file structure of the project. They included core files like `fledged.go` and set up necessary directories. Further contributions involved adding dependencies using the `dep` tool and vendoring external libraries. The user also integrated and updated code-generator and vendoring the generated code. The user also made changes to update the image pull policies of the project.
container-imagekubernetes-operatorkubernetesk8soperator
senthilrch/kubefledged-charts
Jun 2021 - Jul 2026
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 2 months
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