Srishti Chitalia
Cloud Software Development Engineer at Intel Corporation
India
Summary
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Top SchoolSrishti Chitalia is a cloud software development engineer with 10 years of experience building and operating backend systems and Kubernetes-native operators. Currently at Intel, she has a strong track record from Dell EMC and Envestnet | Yodlee working on scalable cloud services and infrastructure automation. Her open-source contributions to Pravega and the Zookeeper operator highlight hands-on expertise in operator development, Kubernetes RBAC, CRD refactoring, and improving system test reliability. She blends backend engineering with DevOps sensibilities—implementing PVC handling, DNS annotations, and port exposure to make distributed stateful services more operable. An IIT Bombay MTech graduate and former TA for algorithms and machine learning, she pairs rigorous academic foundations with practical production experience. Peers appreciate her knack for tracing subtle integration failures to concrete configuration and dependency fixes that improve long-term maintainability.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology BombayBachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata
Github Skills (22)
kubernetes10
docker10
distributed-systems10
zookeeper10
dockers10
java10
javas10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
distributed-file-system10
distributed-database10
helm9
streaming-data9
streaming9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pravega/zookeeper-operator
Nov 2019 - Apr 2022
Kubernetes Operator for Zookeeper
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:45 reviews, 25 commits, 27 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Srishti primarily contributed to the Zookeeper operator by implementing features and making improvements across the project. Their work involved modifying ZookeeperCluster configurations, enabling DNS annotations, creating PVCs in the cluster namespace, updating chart versions, and refactoring CRDs. They also exposed the Zookeeper AdminServer port via Service and added tests. The changes demonstrate a focus on both the core logic of the operator and the deployment/configuration aspects.
zookeeperoperatork8skuberneteskubernetes-operator
pravega/pravega
Sep 2019 - May 2022
Pravega - Streaming as a new software defined storage primitive
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:65 reviews, 13 commits, 27 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Srishti primarily focused on enhancing the Pravega operator and its integration with Kubernetes, addressing system test failures by adding necessary configurations and dependencies. They implemented changes related to Kubernetes resources, including ClusterRole and ClusterRoleBinding, to enable proper testing. Additionally, the user made adjustments to the Pravega cluster spec and the bookkeeper image to accommodate updates. These modifications improved the operability and maintainability of the system within a Kubernetes environment.
streaming-datadistributed-storagereal-time-datadefineddata-ingestion
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