Suraj Deshmukh
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarSuraj Deshmukh is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and systems software, currently based in Redmond and serving at Microsoft. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Docker, and Golang, with a strong foundation from a B.E. in Information Technology from the University of Pune. Suraj has contributed to notable open-source tooling—most prominently kompose—implementing environment variable handling, service type logic, and functional tests that bridge Docker Compose to Kubernetes/OpenShift deployments. He combines backend development with DevOps and testing automation, demonstrating a practical focus on convertibility and real-world deployment scenarios. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he often works at the intersection of developer ergonomics and production reliability. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex distributed-systems requirements into maintainable, testable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
1,685reputation
244kreached
47answers
3questions
kubernetes
top-5%
Github Skills (22)
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
docker-compose10
dockers10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
scripting9
testing9
shell9
script9
sh9
apidoc8
api8
pachyderm6
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/kompose
Jul 2016 - Jan 2023
Convert Compose to Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:104 PRs, 59 pushes, 644 comments in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Suraj primarily contributed to the `kubernetes/kompose` repository by implementing features related to environment variable substitution and handling of service types. They modified code related to Docker Compose parsing and Kubernetes object generation. Additionally, the user implemented functional testing, creating shell scripts for testing Kubernetes and OpenShift conversions. This indicates involvement in both the core functionality of the tool and its deployment/testing aspects.
containersgolangdockercomposedocker-compose
surajssd/scripts
Nov 2016 - Dec 2019
Contributions:133 commits, 121 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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