Prashanth Sundararaman
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Sammamish, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPrashanth Sundararaman is a Principal Software Engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native and telecom systems, currently focusing on 5G protocol work and OpenShift platform enablement at Red Hat. He combines low-level systems expertise in C/C++ and Linux with modern cloud tooling—Golang, Kubernetes, and microservices—to design and ship components like SCTP for 5G, HTTP/QUIC proxies, and traffic optimization services. Throughout his career he has moved between embedded bootloader and runtime debugging to large-scale cloud deployments, bringing a pragmatic debugging mindset (gdb, STL) to distributed systems design. He has contributed to prominent open-source projects such as the OpenShift installer and coreos-assembler, improving libvirt support and multi-architecture image tooling, which reflects a solid DevOps and platform enablement streak. Known as a hands-on technical lead and mentor, he repeatedly drives projects from design through production while exploring new areas like QUIC rate-limiting and Golang-based cloud services. Based in Sammamish, WA, he pairs an engineering master’s from Syracuse with a history of shipping resilient, performance-sensitive systems.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceMasters, Computer Engineering, Masters, Computer Engineering at Syracuse University
Github Skills (20)
libvirt10
kubernetes10
scripting10
terraform10
cicd10
terraformer10
script10
go10
openshift10
build-automation10
kubernetes-pods10
sh10
shell10
qemu9
partitioning9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
coreos/coreos-assembler
Sep 2019 - Nov 2021
Tooling container to assemble CoreOS-like systems
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:39 reviews, 79 commits, 79 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Prashanth primarily focused on improving the build and deployment processes for CoreOS-like systems. They fixed typos in shell scripts, modified partition configurations, and addressed issues related to image generation for different architectures (aarch64, ppc64, s390x). Their contributions also included adjusting QEMU memory settings, modifying boot order and integrating Virtio channels for ISO installation in the testiso test suite, which helped to improve the overall testing process. The user also worked on test suite enhancements by updating Kola tests to use appropriate device identification for partitions.
coreosbuildsystemfedora
openshift/installer
Mar 2020 - Oct 2022
Install an OpenShift 4.x cluster
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:130 reviews, 46 commits, 34 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Prashanth primarily focused on enhancing the libvirt platform within the OpenShift installer. Their contributions include increasing memory allocations for virtual machines, particularly for Power PC systems, and enabling support for file-based OS image overrides. They also updated the Terraform provider and integrated DNS settings. These changes collectively improve OpenShift installation and operational capabilities on libvirt, while addressing memory constraints.
openshift
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