Ajay Tripathy
Co-Founder And CTO at Waterlily Planning
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAjay Tripathy is a seasoned engineering leader and co-founder currently serving as CTO of Stackwatch (creators of Kubecost), bringing 14 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and cost-aware tooling in the San Francisco Bay Area. He blends hands-on backend engineering—demonstrated by open-source contributions to projects like opencost that focus on Kubernetes and cloud billing integrations—with product-led startup leadership. Prior roles at Google and early engineering stints at Plumfare, Roblox, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory give him deep experience across scalable systems, recommendations algorithms, and scientific computing. Known for quietly fixing nuanced cloud provider integrations and preserving production stability, he pairs a UC Berkeley EECS foundation with an investor/advisor perspective at Waterlily Planning.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.S, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, B.S, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley
Github Skills (4)
go10
aws9
gcp8
cloud-computing8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
opencost/opencost
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
Cost monitoring for Kubernetes workloads and cloud costs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 343 reviews, 1224 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ajay appears to be primarily involved in modifying and maintaining the cloud/awsprovider.go file. Their commits focus on fixing issues with labels, spacing, and accidental reversions. The changes involve code modifications within the cloud/awsprovider.go and cloud/gcpprovider.go files related to AWS and Google Cloud Platform integrations, as well as merging a master branch.
gcpcost-optimizationfinopskubecostcost-allocation
AjayTripathy/kubecost-quickstart
Oct 2018 - May 2019
Quickly install kube-state-metrics, prometheus, and grafana on your cluster with helm.
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 6 months
kubehelmk8skubernetesprometheus-metrics
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