Ardika S is an infrastructure engineer with nine years of experience building and operating large-scale cloud-native systems across on-premise and multi-cloud environments. He specializes in Kubernetes, Istio, Envoy, CI/CD, and platform engineering, and has led development of an Envoy Go extension that turned Envoy into a production-grade API gateway used organization-wide. Ardika has driven platform initiatives at companies like Gojek and tiket.com, managing hundreds of Kubernetes clusters and delivering resilient service discovery, networking, and load-balancing solutions. He contributes to notable open-source projects such as kubernetes-sigs/kustomize, improving helm chart integration and test coverage, and aims to upstream work to the Envoy Gateway. Based in Jakarta, he balances hands-on Linux and Go programming with system architecture and infrastructure-as-code practices. Colleagues would describe him as pragmatic, curious, and willing to embrace mistakes as part of continuous growth.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Information Technology, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Information Technology at Politeknik Elektronika Negeri Surabaya
Contributions:7 reviews, 2 PRs, 19 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Ardika primarily contributed to the `kustomize` project by addressing issues related to helm chart inflation and local chart handling within the kustomize ecosystem. They fixed bugs, improved test coverage, and refactored code. Their work involved modifying the `HelmChartInflationGenerator` plugin and related test files, indicating a focus on the integration and functionality of helm charts with kustomize.
Contributions:156 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 5 months
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