Gaurav Dasson
Principal, Cloud Engineering at OCC
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGaurav Dasson is a Principal Cloud Engineering leader based in Chicago with eight years of experience designing and operating large-scale Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms. He has led cloud platform initiatives at OCC, JPMorgan Chase, and TransUnion, architecting EKS-based solutions that integrate CNCF tooling across networking, security, CI/CD, and observability stacks. Known for transforming monolithic systems into microservices and automating infrastructure with IaC, he combines hands-on implementation (Flux, Flagger, Prometheus, Grafana, Vault, OPA) with strategic platform thinking. His background includes building streaming and data-migration frameworks for financial clients, earning recognition for cloud and automation innovations. Comfortable bridging engineering, security, and ops, Gaurav favors pragmatic, production-first designs that reduce toil and accelerate delivery. He pairs an MS in Computer Software Engineering with a track record of shipping resilient, observable platforms in regulated environments.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science, Computer Software Engineering, Masters of Science, Computer Software Engineering at Birla Institute of Technology & Science, PilaniBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (91)
kuma10
connectivity10
contour10
vms10
kong10
microservices10
cloud-native10
k8s10
operator10
mesh10
kubernetes-operator10
secrets10
external-secrets10
notification10
sdk10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gdasson/kuma
Mar 2022 - Jul 2024
🐻 The multi-zone service mesh for containers, Kubernetes and VMs. Built with Envoy. CNCF Sandbox Project.
Contributions:33 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years 4 months
containersmeshzonevmsenvoy
gdasson/external-secrets
Apr 2023 - Dec 2024
External Secrets Operator reads information from a third-party service like AWS Secrets Manager and automatically injects the values as Kubernetes Secrets.
Contributions:20 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 8 months
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