Vasu Kulkarni
Principal Engineer - Infrastructure DevOps at Intel Corporation
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolVasu Kulkarni is a Principal Infrastructure DevOps engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building resilient CI/CD and test infrastructures at scale. Currently at Intel, he focuses on automating and optimizing platform reliability, cost savings, and deployment workflows across complex distributed systems. An active open-source contributor to prominent projects like Ceph’s teuthology and Red Hat’s ocs-ci, he has deep hands-on expertise in Ceph build management, Ansible integration, SELinux troubleshooting, and secrets management from S3. He pairs a strong engineering foundation (B.E. in Computer Science) with a business and analytics master’s from Indiana University, bringing data-driven decision making to DevOps problems. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic automation that reduces operational overhead while improving test coverage across diverse storage platforms.
11 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Business and Analytics, GPA: 3.82, Master's degree, Business and Analytics, GPA: 3.82 at Indiana University - Kelley School of BusinessB.E Computer Science (Overall - Distinction), B.E Computer Science (Overall - Distinction) at Gulbarga University
Github Skills (21)
kubernetes10
python10
redhat10
testing10
cicd10
automation10
kubernetes-pods10
ansible10
ceph10
ansible-galaxy10
automations10
devops10
yum9
bash9
cloud-infrastructure9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ceph/teuthology
Jun 2015 - Jan 2022
Ceph test suite
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 260 commits, 129 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Vasu primarily focused on enhancing the `teuthology` test suite, which involves installing and managing Ceph builds. They implemented and refactored tasks related to installing Red Hat (RH) Ceph builds using `ceph-deploy`, adding support for various RH versions and package management. The user also worked on integrating Ansible for repo setup and managing the test environment, including systemd integration. Additionally, the user addressed SELinux-related issues and audit log parsing within the test environment.
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red-hat-storage/ocs-ci
Mar 2019 - Dec 2021
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:4 releases, 426 reviews, 293 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Vasu Kulkarni's contributions primarily focused on automating and improving the CI/CD pipeline and test infrastructure for the `ocs-ci` repository. They added the capability to retrieve secrets from S3 and implemented a feature to stop and start cluster nodes for cost savings. Several commits are related to patching and configuring storage classes. They also addressed build and test environment issues, improving efficiency, and ensuring better test coverage for different platforms.
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