Varsha Varadarajan
Senior Software Engineer at DigitalOcean
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVarsha Varadarajan is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and Kubernetes-powered platforms. Currently at DigitalOcean, she re-architected managed Kubernetes for high availability and drives roadmap planning while contributing upstream to well-known open-source projects like GoCD and DigitalOcean's godo/doctl ecosystems. Her background at ThoughtWorks includes modernizing CI/CD delivery with Helm charts, AMIs, and automated build infrastructure, and she combines that operational perspective with formal study of operating systems and security at USC. Notably, her open-source work spans storage drivers, CLI tooling, and cluster lifecycle features—reflecting a knack for bridging backend engineering, DevOps, and secure system design.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor's degree, Computer and Information Sciences, General, Bachelor's degree, Computer and Information Sciences, General at B. M. S. College of Engineering
Github Skills (28)
api-rest10
kubernetes10
docker10
cloud-computing10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
command-line-interface10
digitalocean10
configuration-management10
storage10
dockers10
cicd10
go10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
digitalocean/csi-digitalocean
Nov 2019 - Nov 2022
A Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver for DigitalOcean Block Storage
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 32 commits, 41 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Varsha contributed to the core functionality of the CSI DigitalOcean driver, focusing on implementing and extending volume expansion capabilities. This included modifications to both the controller and node components to facilitate resizing volumes. They also addressed formatting issues and dependency updates, including bumping Kubernetes dependencies and ensuring proper device detection. The work demonstrates a focus on storage management and Kubernetes integration.
container-orchestrationcsi-plugincsi-drivercontainer-storage-interfacekubernetes
gocd/gocd
Jan 2016 - May 2020
GoCD - Continuous Delivery server main repository
Role in this project:Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 releases, 549 commits, 560 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Varsha's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Continuous Delivery server GoCD. They implemented configuration migrations and validations, primarily within the config server. Additionally, the user worked on improving the system by addressing bugs and improving test coverage. The user also modified the git log command and addressed build loop issues within the CI/CD pipeline.
continuous-deploymentcontinuous-testinggocddevopscontinuous
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