Akash Shinde
Software Development Engineer III at GoCardless
London, England, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAkash Shinde is a Software Development Engineer III with 13 years of experience building cloud-native systems and APIs, currently at GoCardless in London. He has deep expertise in Go, Kubernetes operators (operator-sdk), and contributed backend and build improvements to the prominent openshift/console project—adding vendoring, GOFLAGS support and Helm endpoints to streamline Helm chart workflows. At Red Hat and earlier roles he focused on backend, DevOps and test engineering, regularly shipping production-grade services paired with React frontends. A VIM power-user and self-taught mobile hobbyist, he blends pragmatic engineering with curiosity for new platforms and languages. Known for improving build pipelines and developer experience, he favors clean, maintainable Go code and automated delivery. Outside work he’s an avid reader, which shapes his methodical approach to solving complex systems problems.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Information Technology at Vishwakarma institute of information technology
Hindi, English, Marathi
Github Skills (10)
go10
openshift10
helm10
devops10
kubernetes-pods9
backend9
back-end-development9
go-modules9
kubernetes9
cicd8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/console
Jan 2020 - Jan 2021
OpenShift Cluster Console UI
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:43 reviews, 28 commits, 26 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Akash's contributions primarily involve enhancing the OpenShift console's backend and build processes. They integrated dependencies using Go modules within the vendor directory. Furthermore, the user updated build scripts to incorporate `GOFLAGS` for vendoring and included Helm service endpoints and related functionalities. These modifications streamlined build procedures and incorporated new endpoints for supporting Helm chart deployments within the OpenShift console.
consoleopenshiftk8skubernetescluster
akashshinde/Registration
Mar 2013 - Jul 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 1 push in 2 years 4 months
spring-bootjava-servletmavenmysqlregistration
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