Anish Lakhwara
Release Engineer at Sourcegraph
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnish Lakhwara is a Release Engineer with eight years of experience building reliable release processes, DevOps tooling, and production operations across startups and public-sector teams. Currently at Sourcegraph, he has driven automated versioning and release-cut workflows and contributed to an appliance Docker image and frontend integrations for a well-known code search and AI platform. Comfortable wearing many hats, he blends hands-on full-stack engineering with a pragmatic DevSecOps mindset cultivated at companies like Webrecorder, Cubiko, and ThreatDefence. He brings an upbeat, collaborative approach and a habit of leaving codebases and teams in better shape than he found them. Anish also self-hosts his own Gitea instance, reflecting a deep personal interest in infrastructure and reproducible developer tooling. Trained in Advanced Computing (Honours) at ANU, he thrives on solving hard problems and learning on the job.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National University
Github Skills (15)
release-management10
go10
docker8
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
cicd8
dockers8
react7
apim6
api6
api-design6
code-search-engine4
co4
code-intelligence4
code-search4
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
sourcegraph/sourcegraph-public-snapshot
Mar 2024 - Aug 2024
Code AI platform with Code Search & Cody
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 112 reviews, 68 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Anish contributed to multiple areas within the Sourcegraph project, primarily focusing on features and enhancements related to the "sg" release process, which includes automated versioning, branch creation, and release cut operations. They also worked on the appliance container, creating its initial Docker image, adding features to adopt frontend service and ingress as part of the appliance deployment. In addition, the user addressed the frontend, pulling version information from the release registry, and modifying the site admin interface.
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Chickensoupwithrice/bonfire-app
Sep 2022 - May 2023
Bonfire - tend to your digital life in community. Customise and host your own online space and control your experience at the most granular level.
Contributions:2 PRs, 20 pushes, 7 branches in 7 months
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