Tamal Saha
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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Top SchoolTamal Saha is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 16 years of experience building cloud-native and DevOps-focused systems, currently leading AppsCode and KubeDB to deliver Kubernetes-native DBaaS and enterprise-grade Kubernetes products. He combines hands-on backend and infrastructure expertise—shaped by prior engineering roles at Google and Amazon—with deep open-source contributions to prominent projects like cert-manager, grpc-gateway, prometheus-operator and controller-tools. His work emphasizes build and dependency management, Kubernetes API compatibility, and operator automation, often improving maintainability and deployment workflows. Based in Las Vegas, he brings an operator-first mindset to product design, shipping tooling that bridges developer ergonomics with production-grade reliability. An underappreciated thread in his career is frequent low-level build and CI improvements that quietly enable faster iteration across complex distributed systems.
16 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science & Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and TechnologyMaster of Computer Science (Ph.D. dropout) Computer Science, Master of Computer Science (Ph.D. dropout) Computer Science at University of Virginia
English, Bengali
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Github Skills (45)
dependency-management10
git10
kubernetes10
github-ci10
docker10
controller-manager10
grpc-gateway10
apidoc10
jenkins-api10
command-line-interface10
google-cloud-functions10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
go10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools
Mar 2019 - May 2021
Tools to use with the controller-runtime libraries
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 16 PRs, 35 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tamal focused on enhancing the `controller-tools` project, primarily by refining the generation of OpenAPI schemas and updating Kubernetes client libraries. They addressed specific issues related to the representation of data types like `resource.Quantity` within the OpenAPI specifications. Additionally, they made code changes to improve the functionality of webhooks, and overall package organization.
runtimecontrollerk8s-sig-api-machinerycontroller-runtime
firebase/firebase-tools
Jun 2015 - Jan 2016
The Firebase Command Line Tools
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:64 commits, 8 PRs, 17 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Tamal contributed to the deployment and operational aspects of the Firebase tools. They implemented and refined deployment processes, including adding support for Google Cloud Functions deployment and improving the packaging of source code. Code changes also included improving error reporting for initialization issues and setting up logging for functions. The user’s work demonstrates a focus on streamlining and automating deployment workflows.
firebasecommand-line-toolscli
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