Dheeraj Shetty
Senior Staff Engineer at GEICO
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDheeraj Shetty is a Senior Staff Engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, currently focused on Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management for EKS and AKS and CAPI ecosystems. He combines deep systems expertise—Linux, networking, distributed systems and OS-level tooling—with hands-on work in Photon OS where he implemented a systemd-style network manager, packaged stemcells, and ported Ceph with Kerberos/GSS-API security. Comfortable in C/C++/Python/Java and CUDA, he has a track record of hardening production software by patching CVEs and upgrading critical packages in high-profile open-source repos like vmware/photon. His research background includes a Google-awarded GPU data-placement tool (PORPLE), reflecting strong algorithmic and parallel-computing instincts applied to real systems. Now based in Redmond, he blends research rigor from an NCSU MS with enterprise delivery at VMware/Broadcom and now GEICO, making him effective at translating low-level innovation into operational, secure cloud services. An often-overlooked strength is his breadth across OS internals, cloud APIs and DevOps, enabling efficient end-to-end ownership of cluster lifecycle problems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science at SJCE
English, Hindi, Kannada, Tulu
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Github Skills (8)
c1710
linux10
vulnerability-management10
c1110
security10
devops9
bash9
openssl7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vmware/photon
Aug 2016 - Feb 2019
Minimal Linux container host
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:209 commits, 3 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Dheeraj primarily focused on patching and fixing vulnerabilities within the `photon` repository, addressing issues related to CVEs in third-party libraries such as `libtiff`, `libtasn1`, `unzip`, `freetype2`, and others. They also implemented fixes for system configuration and deployment, resolving issues like restarting the sshd daemon and fixing autoconf make check failures. Furthermore, they upgraded several packages, including `readline`, `gawk`, and `bash`.
linux
vmware-archive/photonos-netmgr
Aug 2016 - Apr 2018
network management on PhotonOS
Contributions:14 commits in 1 year 8 months
photonos
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