Vineeth Pothulapati
Senior Product Manager at TigerData (creators of TimescaleDB)
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Summary
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Top SchoolVineeth Pothulapati is a Senior Product Manager with nine years of experience specializing in cloud-native observability, data ingestion, and developer tooling. He combines product leadership at TigerData (TimescaleDB) with deep hands-on engineering—contributing to Promscale, the OpenTelemetry Operator, and Kubernetes-focused observability stacks—bridging product strategy and backend/DevOps execution. Certified CKA/CKAD and former Docs lead for a Kubernetes release, he brings strong expertise in distributed systems, upgrades, and production-ready operator design. Vineeth’s background includes building kube-native security and storage integrations at Aqua Security and The Linux Foundation, reflecting a blend of security, storage, and telemetry know-how. He’s known for simplifying data onboarding and making high-availability, scalable observability systems more operationally friendly—often improving deployments, migrations, and test automation behind the scenes.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Bachelor of Technology - BTech at BV Raju Institute of Technology (BVRIT)
English, Telugu
Github Skills (15)
opentelemetry10
kubernetes10
kubernetes-operator10
go10
postgresql10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
high-availability10
dockers9
yaml9
docker9
prometheus8
cd8
cicd8
database-design8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator
Jun 2021 - Nov 2022
Kubernetes Operator for OpenTelemetry Collector
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:190 reviews, 36 commits, 107 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Vineeth primarily contributed to the OpenTelemetry Operator, focusing on adding and enhancing features related to configuration, upgrades, and receiver implementations within the Kubernetes environment. The user added support for features like tolerations and arguments, refactored components for compatibility, and upgraded the operator, demonstrating proficiency in modifying the operator's core functionality and adapting it to new versions. The user also implemented unit and e2e tests.
opentelemetry-collectoroperatorobservabilitykuberneteskubernetes-operator
timescale/promscale
Nov 2020 - Dec 2022
[DEPRECATED] Promscale is a unified metric and trace observability backend for Prometheus, Jaeger and OpenTelemetry built on PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 142 reviews, 63 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Vineeth primarily contributed to the Promscale backend, focusing on enhancing database interaction and system configuration. They added features like the `db-uri` option for database connections and refactored migrations. The user also worked on improving the deployment process through the addition of a docker-compose test file and Kubernetes manifests and also added the HA support to the project, which also involved addressing related logging.
promqlobservabilitypromscalegrafanaprometheus
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