Phani Teja Marupaka

Founding member of KPT, an open-source platform for packaging and managing Kubernetes workloads. Owned design and development of key components, helping shape kpt’s technical direction and enabling scalable GitOps workflows. Led the end-to-end migration to beta, partnering with customers to ensure smooth adoption and incorporating feedback into the product. Top contributor with 300+ open source commits, and an active reviewer within a global community. Mentored engineers and worked closely with GCP customers to drive best practices for Kubernetes and GitOps.

Building large-scale automation systems to orchestrate infrastructure across AWS and global bare-metal environments. Designed and developed RESTful APIs to automate provisioning and lifecycle management of thousands of hosts, improving reliability and operational efficiency across regions. Worked extensively with AWS services including EC2, S3, VPC, CloudFormation, and Security Groups, driving infrastructure standardization and scalable automation.

Designed and developed API in C++ for logging claims and retrieving adjudication results. Developed a tool to generate Provider and Member reports using C# .NET and SQL. Written stored procedures and optimized table joins in SQL to reduce data retrieval time. Analyzed multiple data storage platforms and achieved 95% accuracy in Data Migration. Only one who received 1 Rating in a team of 30 members during appraisal.