Chetan Banavikalmutt
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolChetan Banavikalmutt is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience specializing in GitOps, Kubernetes and cloud-native systems at Red Hat. As a Certified Kubernetes Application Developer and active Argo community contributor, he has strengthened Argo CD, ApplicationSet and GitOps operator projects—adding features, fixing tests, and improving OpenShift integrations that power declarative continuous delivery at scale. He blends backend, DevOps and occasional UI work (notably UX tweaks and keyboard shortcuts in Argo CD) to ship resilient distributed systems and operator controllers. Based in Bengaluru, he combines production engineering with open source mentorship and a master’s-level CS background, often focusing on the subtle integration points—like TLS termination and controller registration—that make platform automation reliable.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at RNS Institute of Technology - IndiaMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Kannada, Hindi
Github Skills (38)
continuous-deployment10
kubernetes10
docker10
controller10
apidoc10
testing10
kustomize10
kubernetes-operator10
autodeploy10
dockers10
cicd10
gitops10
argocd10
azure-deployment10
go10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
argoproj-labs/argocd-operator
Dec 2020 - Jul 2022
A Kubernetes operator for managing Argo CD clusters.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Back-end Developer
DevOps Engineer & Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 reviews, 15 commits, 26 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Chetan primarily contributed to the Argo CD operator, focusing on improving its functionality and stability. Their work involved fixing unit tests, modifying deployment configurations, and adding features such as managing cluster resources and supporting custom roles. They demonstrated an understanding of Kubernetes operators, Go, and related technologies by making code changes and implementing configurations, effectively enhancing the operator's management capabilities. Furthermore, the user integrated various features into the operator, improving its functionality.
golangoperator-sdkclustersargocdopenshift
redhat-developer/gitops-operator
Jul 2020 - May 2022
An operator that gets you an ArgoCD for cluster configuration out-of-the-box on OpenShift along with the UI for visualizing environments.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:74 reviews, 89 commits, 47 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Chetan primarily contributed to the GitOps Operator by modifying the operator's functionality and integrating it with OpenShift. They changed the TLS termination type, added a controller to track ArgoCD instances and create ConsoleLinks. Furthermore, they added dependencies for the ArgoCD operator and modified the main.go file to register components and controllers for the gitops-operator. The contributions suggest a focus on improving the operator's capabilities and integration with the OpenShift platform.
boxargocdout-of-the-boxopenshiftoperator
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