Gaurav Abbi
Development Architect at SAP
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolGaurav Abbi is a Development Architect with 13–15 years of experience building cloud-native, microservices-driven platforms for multinational enterprises, currently shaping integration and extension runtimes at SAP in Munich. He blends hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—Go, Scala, Java, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka/NATS—with a strong focus on distributed systems, tracing, and resilient event-driven architectures. At Kyma he contributed to core event services and CI/CD pipeline upgrades, demonstrating fluency across API development and infrastructure changes in a prominent open-source Kubernetes project. His career spans product ownership and technical leadership roles at SAP, IBM, and startups where he has led architectures, prototyped extensibility use cases, and reduced onboarding friction through pragmatic engineering. An advocate of functional programming and tooling efficiency, he’s also an Emacs enthusiast who enjoys collaborating with like-minded engineers.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech Instrumentation and Control Engineering, B.Tech Instrumentation and Control Engineering at National Institute of Technology Jalandhar
English, German, Punjabi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
api-rest10
kubernetes10
docker10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
dockers10
cicd10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
rest-api10
knative10
event-driven-architecture9
yaml9
cloud-native9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
kyma-project/kyma
Aug 2018 - May 2020
Kyma is an opinionated set of Kubernetes-based modular building blocks, including all necessary capabilities to develop and run enterprise-grade cloud-native applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 37 commits, 79 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Gaurav primarily focused on enhancing the event service functionality within the Kyma project. Their contributions involved fixing content type issues, enabling source ID as a header field for event publishing, and ensuring proper validation. The user also implemented and refined testing strategies, and made crucial changes to the build and deployment pipelines, like upgrading the Kubernetes version and refactoring Knative charts. They demonstrated a strong understanding of both backend API development and infrastructure management.
flexibledevopscloud-foundryopenui5sap-hana
abbi-gaurav/deutsch-lernen
Nov 2017 - Aug 2022
Contributions:59 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
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