Chinmay Gadgil
Software Engineer at Rakuten Commerce LLC
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolChinmay Gadgil is a software engineer with seven years of experience specializing in cloud-native infrastructure, test automation, and backend systems, based in Sunnyvale, California. He has contributed to prominent open-source AWS Kubernetes projects such as the AWS Load Balancer Controller and amazon-vpc-cni-k8s, improving e2e testing, deployment readiness, IAM setup, and network test coverage for ENI/IP leak and SNAT scenarios. Chinmay blends DevOps and backend skills to harden test infrastructures and CI workflows, with hands-on fixes for region-specific test behavior and resource cleanup/timeout robustness. His training spans a BTech in ECE from VJTI and a Master's in IT from Carnegie Mellon, reflecting both hardware-aware thinking and modern cloud engineering practice. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic automation that uncovers flaky behaviors before production, and he has a track record of improving reliability in widely used Kubernetes networking controllers.
6 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI)Master's degree, Information Technology, Master's degree, Information Technology at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Marathi, Japanese
Github Skills (21)
amazon-eks10
kubernetes10
docker10
testing10
cni10
plug10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
iks10
plugin10
automation10
go10
aws10
kubernetes-pods10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
aws/amazon-vpc-cni-k8s
May 2021 - Jun 2022
Networking plugin repository for pod networking in Kubernetes using Elastic Network Interfaces on AWS
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 115 reviews, 43 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Chinmay primarily contributed to the test infrastructure for the `aws/amazon-vpc-cni-k8s` repository. Their work involved creating and modifying test cases to validate CNI daemonset environment variables, along with checking ENI/IP leaks during pod deletion, and SNAT functionality. Further contributions included setting up, updating, and validating multus installation and addressing compilation errors. The user's commits also included code related to validating the host networking setup.
elasticnetworkingnetwork-interfacescni-pluginkubernetes
kubernetes-sigs/aws-load-balancer-controller
Dec 2021 - Jul 2022
A Kubernetes controller for Elastic Load Balancers
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Test Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 10 commits, 8 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Chinmay focused on enhancing the e2e testing infrastructure for the AWS Load Balancer Controller. They implemented a helper script for running e2e tests, fixed logging issues, and added timeout mechanisms for resource deletion. Additionally, the user integrated the controller deployment readiness logic into the e2e script. Their contributions also included modifying the test script for China regions and updating the IAM service account setup.
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