Kedar Kekan
Head Of Engineering at Monaire
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolKedar Kekan is a seasoned technology leader and Head of Engineering based in Pune with 17+ years of experience building SaaS, cloud-native and AI-driven systems. He now leads Monaire’s engineering organization to deliver an AI-powered Cloud IoT platform for HVAC and refrigeration, and previously co-founded Airavana, a Sequoia India–backed SaaS startup for discovering and remediating sensitive data sprawl. Kedar blends hands-on engineering with product leadership across enterprise software, DevOps and networking — he’s an active open-source contributor to the widely used Ansible project, where he improved NX-OS and IOS‑XR modules and Netconf support. His career includes senior roles at Red Hat, Cisco, Qualys and Platform9, and he pairs executive experience with recent MS and MBA studies, bringing a founder’s pragmatism to building secure, scalable platforms that bridge edge IoT, cloud infrastructure and data security.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceBachelor of Engineering - BE, Bachelor of Engineering - BE at Pune Institute of Computer TechnologyMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at NMIMS Global
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Github Skills (11)
ansible10
network-automation10
ansible-galaxy10
python10
devops9
mac-address6
mobile-phones6
sizeof6
makefile6
iphone6
tcp6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
Sep 2017 - Feb 2018
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:33 commits, 56 PRs, 30 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Kedar primarily contributed to the Ansible project by addressing specific module-related issues. They fixed idempotence in the `nxos_pim_rp_address` module and added sub-interface support for `nxos_interface` and `nxos_ip_interface` modules. Furthermore, the user made changes to the `iosxr_netconf` module, adding and improving the Netconf sub-system service for Cisco IOS-XR devices, as well as performing various refactoring and cleaning of code.
everythingpythonit-automationdevopsdeployment
kedarX/ansible
Sep 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:151 pushes, 54 branches in 2 years 1 month
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