Shalini Bhaskara
Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer at NVIDIA
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShalini Bhaskara is a Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native storage and infrastructure for enterprise-scale platforms. She led backend and DevOps work on the widely used kubernetes-sigs/vsphere-csi-driver at VMware, improving test stability, lifecycle handling, and migration reliability for Project Pacific and Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service. Her background spans cloud storage on VMC projects, building extensible migration and workflow frameworks at Nutanix, and data-driven storage benchmarking during an early Datrium internship. Proficient in Golang, Python, and C, she blends systems-level engineering with pragmatic DevOps practices to harden distributed storage in production. Based in Sunnyvale, she pairs advanced degrees from Stony Brook and BITS Pilani with a track record of shipping resilient open-source components that simplify complex storage migrations.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Stony Brook University
English, Hindi, Telugu
Github Skills (9)
kubernetes10
vsphere10
go10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
idempotent9
automation9
automations9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/vsphere-csi-driver
Sep 2019 - Nov 2022
vSphere storage Container Storage Interface (CSI) plugin
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:646 reviews, 171 commits, 177 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Shalini's contributions primarily focused on improving the stability and reliability of the full-sync tests within the vSphere CSI driver. This involved ensuring the proper shutdown and startup of the vsan-health service during testing, along with the addition of time delays to allow for complete service operations. The user also addressed resource deletion, particularly deleting resources after each test run and making the controller unpublish no-op for file volumes, further contributing to a robust and maintainable testing environment. Moreover, the user made updates to manage and fix bugs for the migration feature.
csi-plugincsi-drivercontainer-storage-interfacek8s-sig-cloud-providerkubernetes
shalini-b/vsphere-csi-driver
Apr 2020 - Mar 2025
vSphere storage Container Storage Interface (CSI) plugin
Contributions:335 pushes, 190 branches in 4 years 11 months
csi-plugincontainer-storage-interfacekubernetesstoragevsphere
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