Surya Seetharaman
Tech (Team) Lead, OpenShift Core Networking at Red Hat
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSurya Seetharaman is a tech lead and seasoned OpenShift core networking engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native networking and compute systems. Based in Berlin at Red Hat, he progressed from software engineer to Tech (Team) Lead, driving stability, upgrade resilience, and performance improvements across OpenShift networking and cluster-network-operator. He is a hands-on contributor to major open-source projects—Kubernetes, OpenStack Nova, and OpenShift—where his work on iptables optimization, cell management, and networking test reliability has reduced operational pain and improved cloud upgrades. Comfortable across back-end engineering and DevOps, he blends deep protocol and SDN/NFV knowledge with pragmatic automation for production clusters. A former CERN cloud engineer and Google Summer of Code contributor, he brings research-grade rigor to large-scale distributed systems. Colleagues rely on him for clear architecture decisions that keep high-availability services running while mentoring teams to elevate their collective engineering craft.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Science stream+ Economic Applications, High School Science stream+ Economic Applications at Hari Sri Vidya Nidhi SchoolBachelor's Degree Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science Engineering at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, CoimbatoreMaster's Degree Network Services and Systems, Master's Degree Network Services and Systems at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyCyber Security Summer Program 2014 Computer Science Engineering, Cyber Security Summer Program 2014 Computer Science Engineering at Tel Aviv UniversityHigher Secondary Examination(HSE) Maths Physics Chemistry Computer, Higher Secondary Examination(HSE) Maths Physics Chemistry Computer at Vivekodayam Girl's Higher Secondary School,Thrissur,Kerala,India.
Github Skills (30)
unit-testing10
kubernetes10
docker10
python10
apidoc10
testing10
openstack-nova10
networking10
dockers10
iptables10
cicd10
automation10
go10
openshift10
openstack10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/cluster-network-operator
Jun 2020 - Sep 2022
Create and manage cluster networking configuration
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:219 reviews, 26 commits, 57 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Surya contributed significantly to the cluster-network-operator, focusing on stability and upgrade improvements. Their work included marking the operator as degraded when pods are in a `CrashLoopBackOff` state, enhancing the operator's resilience. They also addressed validation issues related to network configurations. Furthermore, the user contributed to pre-puller daemonset implementation to reduce upgrade downtime for OVN-Kubernetes, as well as added support for the respect of gateway config values, which improved the operational efficiency.
networkingsdnoperatorkubernetescluster
openstack/nova
Oct 2017 - Oct 2019
OpenStack Compute (Nova). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:77 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Surya primarily contributed to the OpenStack Nova compute project by addressing bugs, enhancing existing features, and refactoring code related to cell management, instance mapping, and database interactions. Their work involved modifying core management commands and tests, as well as extending the `nova-manage` CLI. Key contributions include refactoring of code around instance archival processes, adding the 'disabled' column to the `cell_mappings` table, and implementing a new microversion to support partial instance information when a cell is down. They demonstrate strong knowledge of OpenStack's architecture and database interactions.
novaopendevopenstackcompute
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