Senthil Kumaran (stylesen)

Seasoned Technologist | Open Source Advocate | Distributed Systems Architect

19+ years of experience managing teams and building future-proof, scalable systems.

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About Me

I am a seasoned technologist with over 19 years of diverse experience managing local and distributed teams, owning products, and hands-on implementation. I am a Committer and Project Management Committee (PMC) member at the Apache Software Foundation, a Debian Maintainer, and an Apache Subversion developer.

I am passionate about everything related to Free Open Source Software, both technically and philosophically. I build and maintain systems that are future-proof, highly scalable, and latency-sensitive.

Education

Skills

Programming: Python (Expert), Go (Advanced), C (Advanced)

DevOps: Docker/Podman, LXC, Terraform, AWS, GCP, CloudHSM, Jenkins, CI/CD

Web: FastAPI, Django, Flask, gRPC, Drupal, Redis, RabbitMQ, Jinja2

Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, DynamoDB

Dev Tools: Git, Subversion, n8n, GNU Toolchain

Experience

Linaro Ltd. Oct 2020 - Oct 2025

Tech Lead (Remote) - Tux Ecosystem

Design/Architect and development of TuxSuite™ SaaS framework. Manage a team of 3. TuxSuite™ delivers on-demand APIs and tools for building Linux kernels in parallel and at scale.

Xapo Aug 2018 - Apr 2020

Senior Python Consultant (Remote)

Ownership, design, and implementation of Money-In services for ClearBank and LHV Pank. Architected Notary service for AWS CloudHSM interaction.

Linaro Ltd. Oct 2012 - Jul 2018

LAVA Software Engineer (Remote)

Core architect for Linaro Automated Validation Architecture (LAVA). Debian maintainer for LAVA packages.

Debian Jul 2015 - Present

Debian Maintainer

Maintainer for packages such as python-django-compat, python-django-hijack, and LAVA related packages.

Bank of America Aug 2011 - Oct 2012

Senior Manager / Python Lead Analyst

Managed a team of 5. Designed and developed Risk Analysis framework. Achieved a reporting efficiency of 60 minutes to calculate Risk.

Nokia India Pvt, Ltd. Oct 2010 - Apr 2011

MeeGo Senior Developer OS and MW

Designed and developed prototype for Meego SDK Manager. Developed mem-cpu-monitor plugin for QtCreator instrumentation dashboard. Established Redmine based collaborative development environment.

CollabNet Software Pvt, Ltd. Jul 2007 - Oct 2010

Software Engineer

Obtained Full committer access for Subversion code base in 11 months. Youngest full committer to the Subversion project (in 2008). Developed Subversion related modules for many CollabNet products.

SpikeSource Software Pvt, Ltd. Jun 2006 - Jun 2007

Associate Software Engineer

Owned and implemented different SpikeSource Open Source solution offerings. Instrumental in developing different SpikeSource products to expand product portfolio.

Projects & Contributions

TuxSuite™

SaaS framework for building Linux kernels at scale. Includes TuxMake, TuxRun, TuxBake.

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LAVA

Linaro Automated Validation Architecture. Architect and developer for this automated testing framework.

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Apache Subversion

Full Committer and PMC member. Contributed new features and non-trivial patches.

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django-sessioninfo

Developer. Provides detailed info about Django sessions.

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TCENet

Co-Founder. College intranet solution that achieved paperless administration.

Publications

Practical LXC and LXD

Apress (2017)

Covers LXC virtualization and LXD.

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Open Source in Tamil

Kizhakku Pathipagam (2012)

An introduction to Open Source concepts in Tamil.

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IoT Capabilities Analysis by using Optimized Machine Learning with Uncertain Traffic Modeling

Journal of Uncertain Systems (2023)

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Sensor cloud virtualisation systems for improving performance of IoT-based WSN

International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing (2023)

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Securing Internet of Things Devices Using Containers

Sustainable development in engineering and technology (2022)

A deep analysis of object capabilities for intelligence considering wireless IoT devices with the DNN approach

The Journal of Supercomputing (2021)

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Open Source Internet of Things Platforms

International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering (2019)

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A Performance Evaluaion of Linux Containers on Similar Arm Based Internet of Things Development Boards

ICIoTCT (2018)

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Get in Touch

Feel free to reach out for collaborations or opportunities.

Email: sk@stylesen.org