Sonali Srivastava
Senior Developer Advocate
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolSonali Srivastava is a Senior Developer Advocate with 11 years of experience specializing in cloud-native developer experience, security, testing, and observability. She blends hands-on system administration and backend work—having contributed to the high-profile systemd project—with persuasive content creation, producing POCs, tutorials, courses (LFS255 on Kyverno), blogs, videos and conference talks. An active CNCF App Dev WG member and Kyverno contributor, she focuses on making open-source tools approachable for developers and improving DX through practical demos and docs. After returning to work following a career break, she champions supportive environments for women in tech and mentors students and caregivers re-entering the industry. Her background uniquely spans low-level Linux internals and cloud-native evangelism, enabling her to translate complex internals into accessible developer-facing resources.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at Krishna Institute of Engineering & TechnologyIntermediate Mathematics and Computer Science, Intermediate Mathematics and Computer Science at City Montessori School
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
534reputation
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Github Skills (18)
init10
linux10
c1110
c1710
systemd10
synchronized9
synchronize9
timex9
clock-synchronization9
timed9
elasticsearch6
shell6
sed6
bash6
grep6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cerebro1/systemd
Apr 2022 - Dec 2024
The systemd System and Service Manager
Contributions:194 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 8 months
service-managerlinuxadministratorfreebsdsolaris
cerebro1/testkube-docs
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:18 pushes, 5 branches in 8 months
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