Akshat Jain is a DevOps/SRE professional with six years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, currently driving deployment and self-hosting improvements at Plane. He has strong expertise in containerization, CI/CD, and observability—demonstrated by adding Docker Swarm support, resolving RabbitMQ and SSL upload issues, and optimizing Docker volumes for a popular open-source Plane project. His background includes SecDevOps work, Terraform/Terragrunt VPN deployments, Prometheus-driven monitoring of 1000+ processes, and Velero backups for Kubernetes, reflecting a focus on resilience and automation. Akshat contributed to Google Summer of Code with SUSE, producing a containerized traffic-prediction web app that reduced congestion in simulations, and he brings practical GitOps experience with Rancher. Based in Hyderabad, he pairs academic IT training with competition-honed problem solving (eYantra runner-up), making him comfortable turning research prototypes into production-ready systems.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology at Jaipur Engineering College & Research Center
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Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:3 reviews, 17 PRs, 40 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Akshat primarily contributed to the infrastructure and deployment aspects of the project. Their work included setting up Docker Swarm support, updating the deployment scripts, and configuring environment variables for various services. The user also focused on improving the CI/CD pipeline, addressing issues related to RabbitMQ and SSL termination for uploads, demonstrating a strong understanding of containerization and deployment strategies. Furthermore, the user made enhancements to the self-hosting deployment, managing Docker volumes and optimizing the overall self-hosting experience.
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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