Swapna Krishnan
Software Section Leader at Raytheon Technologies
Acton, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSwapna Krishnan is a Software Section Leader at Raytheon Technologies with 12 years of hands-on experience building and automating high-performance embedded and platform software. She combines deep expertise in real-time systems (C/C++, VxWorks), test automation, and release engineering with a proven track record in mentoring and growing cross-functional teams. Previously a Senior Software Engineer and long-tenured QA engineer at Red Hat and VMware, she blends disciplined testing practices with platform engineering to improve reliability across complex systems. A certified Scrum Master and Scrum@Scale Practitioner, Swapna drives agile adoption and continuous improvement while still contributing code and automation scripts. Her open-source contributions to virtualization test suites (notably tp-qemu) show a practical focus on ensuring integration quality for SPICE and QEMU-related components. Based in Acton, MA, she is passionate about creating collaborative cultures that deliver customer-focused, production-ready software.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Electrical Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Electrical Engineering at University of Colorado BoulderB.E Electronics and Communication Engineering, B.E Electronics and Communication Engineering at KCG College of Technology
Hindi, Tamil, English
Github Skills (6)
python10
qemu10
build-automation10
virtualization10
testing10
bash5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
autotest/tp-qemu
Jul 2013 - Jun 2017
Virt Test Provider for qemu and other related virtualization backends
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:57 commits, 42 PRs, 6 comments in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Swapna primarily contributed to the `autotest/tp-qemu` repository by adding and modifying test scripts, specifically focusing on building and installing packages related to the SPICE protocol and QEMU virtualization environment. Their work involved creating and updating test cases for features such as remote-viewer, SPICE-GTK, SPICE-vdagent, and virt-viewer, ensuring they functioned correctly. The commits demonstrate a strong focus on testing the build process and integration of these components within the QEMU environment.
pythonprovidertestingbackendsqemu
swapnakrishnan2k/tp-qemu
Mar 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:26 pushes, 38 branches, 1 comment in 1 year
virtualizationbackendsproviderqemu
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