Chetan Giradkar
Software Engineer at Red Hat
Dublin, Ireland
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Top SchoolChetan Giradkar is a pragmatic full‑stack Software Engineer with about three years of professional experience building user-focused web applications and cloud-native tooling. Currently at Red Hat, he has advanced Podman’s functionality and UX—contributing to core container behaviors like bash completion, tty handling, remote flag precedence, and improved logging and error handling. Comfortable across frontend (React, Redux, Bootstrap) and backend (Golang, Java, Rust) stacks, he has delivered scalable modules and IDM solutions for platforms serving 100k+ users and systems processing millions of daily queries. His Master’s work in distributed systems and hands-on DevOps experience (Docker, Kubernetes, Podman) give him a practical edge in bridging UI/UX design with robust infrastructure. Colleagues know him as a Podman enthusiast who pays attention to developer ergonomics as much as to backend correctness.
2 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering, 8.2, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering, 8.2 at Pune Institute of Computer TechnologyMaster's degree, Computer Science (Negotiated Learning), Master's degree, Computer Science (Negotiated Learning) at University College Dublin
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Github Skills (12)
container10
docker10
go10
dockers10
cli9
command-line9
bash9
command-line-interface9
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
devops8
occi7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
containers/podman
Jun 2023 - Sep 2024
Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:17 reviews, 9 PRs, 32 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Chetan made several contributions related to the Podman project's core functionality and operational aspects. They added bash completion functionality for the `inspect` command, which enhances user experience. Further contributions included modifying the container environment setup by integrating the tty flag to add a default terminal. Also, they improved the remote operation of Podman by refining the precedence of command-line flags for remote connections. The user also worked on healthcheck and exec events logging, and defined better error messages for container name conflicts, and handled exit codes for remove events.
containersrunclinuxpodmandocker
cgiradkar/podman
Jun 2023 - Nov 2023
Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.
Contributions:111 pushes, 19 branches in 5 months
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