Shweta Padubidri
Sofware Engineer at Red Hat
Apex, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShweta Padubidri is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in virtualization, cloud networking, and automation, currently building at Red Hat after a decade of impactful work at Cisco. She combines deep hands-on expertise in KVM, OpenStack, Kubernetes, Docker and VMware with strong Python, SQL, and CI/CD skills to deliver reliable, scalable cloud networking solutions. At Cisco she contributed key OpenStack plugins and CI/CD tooling, and her open-source work includes operational improvements to Grafana Loki—adding proxy support, zone-aware scheduling annotations, and automated Docker image pipelines. Known for bridging engineering and operations, she consistently improves test coverage and automation (Neutron unit and persistence tests) to harden networking services. Based in Apex, NC, she enjoys contributing to open-source projects and translating complex network-device integrations into one-click cloud deployments.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
NPSBachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of KentuckyMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Michigan State University
Hindi, Kannada
Github Skills (19)
unit-testing10
kubernetes10
docker10
python10
dockers10
cicd10
openstack10
cloki10
kubernetes-pods10
lokijs10
logging10
cloud-native10
test-automation10
jsonnet9
operator9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/loki
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
Like Prometheus, but for logs.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:34 reviews, 5 commits, 11 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Shweta primarily focused on enhancing the operational aspects of the Loki project. They automated image building and publishing processes for Docker Hub, specifically for the Loki operator, through modifications to drone.jsonnet. Additionally, they added support for proxy configurations within the Loki deployment, introducing the ability to set environment variables for proxy settings and supporting secure traffic when external S3 storage is used. Furthermore, the user implemented pod annotations for zone-aware scheduling and adjusted configuration related to IndexGateway and other components.
logginglokigrafanaprometheuscloudnative
openstack/neutron
Aug 2011 - Sep 2011
OpenStack Networking (Neutron). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:20 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Shweta's commits primarily focus on adding unit test cases and persistence tests for the OpenStack Neutron project. The changes modify existing test files and add new tests to cover various functionalities, including network creation, deletion, and port operations. The commits demonstrate a focus on improving code coverage and ensuring the reliability of the networking service through comprehensive testing.
ospfopenflownetwork-automationnetworkingsdn
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