Akanksh Kumar
Technician at Indus Towers
Maharashtra, India
Summary
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RockstarAkanksh Kumar is a hands-on software engineer and DevOps practitioner based in Maharashtra, India, with 7 years of experience building and hardening cloud-native systems. Comfortable across backend development, CI/CD and testing, he has contributed to notable open-source projects such as Kanister (a CNCF sandbox project) where he implemented Kafka backup/restore blueprints and worked on Docker/CI integrations. He has also integrated Helm charts for Rancher partner catalogs and improved end-to-end test coverage for Botkube, showing a blend of production engineering and QA rigor. Certified in container orchestration and tooling (CKA/D) and fluent in Golang, Docker and Kubernetes, he focuses on distributed systems and automation. At Indus Towers he combines field-facing technician experience with software delivery skills, giving him practical insight into operational constraints. Akanksh brings a pragmatic, infrastructure-first mindset that helps bridge on-the-ground reliability needs with scalable engineering solutions.
7 years of coding experience
Github Skills (17)
e2e-testing10
kubernetes10
docker10
testing10
e2e-test10
kafka10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
go10
helm10
kubernetes-pods10
cloud-native10
yaml9
operator8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kanisterio/kanister
Dec 2020 - Dec 2022
An extensible framework for application-level data management on Kubernetes, Kanister is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project and was originally created by the Veeam Kasten team.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:155 reviews, 153 commits, 86 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Akanksh primarily focused on implementing Kafka backup and restore blueprints, which involved significant backend development for data management within a Kubernetes environment. The commits demonstrate expertise in scripting (bash), Kafka configuration, and integration with cloud storage connectors, specifically Adobe S3. Furthermore, the user's contributions included modifications to Dockerfiles and CI/CD-related configurations, indicating DevOps responsibilities related to building and deploying the application.
golangdata-managementdata-protectionoperatorkubernetes
rancher/partner-charts
Feb 2022 - Aug 2022
A catalog based on applications from independent software vendors (ISVs). Most of them are SUSE Partners.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 15 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Akanksh primarily contributed to the integration of Helm charts for various partner applications within the Rancher ecosystem. Their commits involve modifying and updating `Chart.yaml` files, which specify chart metadata, and merging changes from the main source. They updated the K10 chart with multiple new versions. This also involved running 'make charts' and merging code changes.
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