Senthil Kumaran
San Francisco, California, United States
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Senthil Kumaran is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 17 years of experience, currently working on Uber’s Compute Platform. He previously led container networking and controller work for EKS at AWS (VPC CNI, VPC Resource Controller, Load Balancer Controller) and presented at re:Invent 2022, and earlier built Mergebot—an end-to-end dev/test/release system—while at Mesosphere. A longtime Python core developer and prolific open-source contributor, he specializes in integration testing, CI/CD, test automation, and cloud-native networking across projects like DC/OS, CPython, setuptools, and amazon-vpc-cni-k8s. He’s known for improving build and testing infrastructure to make systems more reliable and measurable (e.g., publishing CloudWatch metrics from canary tests). Outside of engineering he’s an avid runner and reader, bringing the same discipline to debugging and system design.
17 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (62)
integration-testing10
algorithms10
kubernetes10
dockerce10
docker10
documentations10
pytest10
python10
testing10
formatting10
cni10
text-formatting10
dcos10
data-structure10
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Programming languages (32)
Github contributions (5)
uthcode/learntosolveit
May 2013 - Dec 2022
The C Programming Language Companion
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:3 reviews, 680 commits, 54 PRs in 9 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Senthil's commits focus on reformatting and structuring the content of the "Technology and Courage" essay. The changes involve adjusting the formatting of text, including the title and author information. Additionally, the user added examples and information in the chapter1 and converted the python examples into the executable.
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dcos/dcos
Aug 2016 - Jun 2021
DC/OS - The Datacenter Operating System
Role in this project:Backend Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 340 commits, 913 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Senthil primarily contributed to integration tests within the `dcos/dcos` repository, which focuses on the Datacenter Operating System. Their work involved fixing integration tests related to the pkgpanda package manager and integrating changes related to the dcos-installer-ui. The user's commits also include changes in the extra/test_networking.py file, indicating involvement in network testing. These contributions point towards a focus on testing the functionality and stability of the system.
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