Tharun Rajendran
Senior Software Engineer at HousingAnywhere
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolTharun Rajendran is a Senior Software Engineer based in Rotterdam with 10 years of experience building backend systems, developer tooling, and observability-focused features—primarily in Go and cloud-native ecosystems. He’s currently at HousingAnywhere after progressing from payments-focused backend work to broader platform responsibilities, and earlier helped clients adopt TDD, microservices, and CI/CD practices at ThoughtWorks. An active open-source contributor, Tharun has improved control-plane observability and gRPC support for Kuma (a CNCF service mesh) and added front-end testing and UX tweaks to high-profile projects like Grafana and Homebrew. He blends full-stack sensibilities with DevOps rigor—shipping API endpoints, integration tests, and profiling servers—and has a track record of improving test suites and developer tooling. Colleagues rely on him for clean code, refactoring, and pragmatic engineering practices that make distributed systems more debuggable and maintainable.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Karpagam College of Engineering
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Github Skills (53)
service-mesh10
ingress-controller10
kubernetes10
javascript10
container10
docker10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
testing10
configuration-management10
typescript10
dockers10
ruby10
homebrew10
react-testing-library10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
kumahq/kuma
Feb 2020 - Jul 2022
🐻 The multi-zone service mesh for containers, Kubernetes and VMs. Built with Envoy. CNCF Sandbox Project.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:58 reviews, 49 commits, 63 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Tharun primarily contributed to the Kuma Control Plane (kuma-cp), adding features related to logging network interfaces and enabling gRPC support. They also modified the kumactl tool to improve command shorthand and filter gateway dataplanes. Furthermore, the user enhanced the API by exposing creation and modification times and integrated traffic direction information into access logs. Their work demonstrates proficiency in backend development within a service mesh context and a focus on enhancing observability and functionality.
kumacontourconnectivityvmssandbox
Kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller
Jun 2021 - May 2022
:gorilla: Kong for Kubernetes: The official Ingress Controller for Kubernetes.
Role in this project:Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:19 reviews, 9 commits, 12 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Tharun primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of the Kong Ingress Controller, focusing on features related to debugging, KongClusterPlugin handling, and configurable timeouts. Their work includes implementing a profiling server, adding integration tests, and modifying code related to configuration, client timeouts, and tag filtering. They also demonstrate DevOps skills through changes impacting the build and deployment configurations.
golangcontrollercrdsingress-controllerapis
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