Shashwathi Reddy
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShashwathi Reddy is a Principal Software Engineer based in Seattle with 11 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling across Microsoft, LinkedIn, VMware and Pivotal. She combines deep backend and DevOps expertise—particularly in Kubernetes ecosystems—with a track record of shipping production features and testable, maintainable code in prominent open-source projects like Knative and Tekton. At VMware she led teams and product roadmaps for Tanzu integrations, mentored hires, and converted prototypes into open-source products; at Pivotal she tuned high-performance Go routers and distributed services. Known for pragmatic refactors (e.g., modernizing logging, improving validations, and adding integration tests) she focuses on reliability, observability and developer experience. An MS in Computer Science and a history of cross-team collaboration underscore her ability to turn complex platform challenges into practical, deployable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at State University of New York at BuffaloB.E, Information Science/Studies, B.E, Information Science/Studies at M S Ramaiah Institute Of Technology
Telugu, Kannada, English
Github Skills (21)
kubernetes10
docker10
apidoc10
testing10
tekton10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
go10
api10
build-automation10
pipeline10
kubernetes-pods10
logging10
automations10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
knative/build
Jul 2018 - Apr 2019
A Kubernetes-native Build resource.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:29 commits, 29 PRs, 257 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Shashwathi primarily contributed to the codebase by replacing the glog logger with zap logger, demonstrating an effort to modernize logging. They also added and refactored unit tests, including adding build timeouts and pod affinity to the build. Their contributions include implementing build timeout functionality and adding the ability to specify node selectors, improving the build's configuration.
kubernetescontainers
tektoncd/pipeline
Sep 2018 - Feb 2019
A cloud-native Pipeline resource.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits, 33 PRs, 427 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Shashwathi made several contributions to the Tekton pipeline project, primarily focused on extending the API with new features. They added cluster and cluster binding functionalities to the types, allowing for more complex pipeline configurations. The user also implemented granular validation for taskrun objects, improved error messages, and refactored code for emitting events. Furthermore, the user removed support for `Source` and added `sources` for better resource management and streamlined Git resource handling.
cloud-nativetektonpipelinekubernetescdf
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