Gaurav Gahlot
Staff Software Engineer at IONOS
Berlin Metropolitan Area Germany
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Top SchoolGaurav Gahlot is a Staff Software Engineer based in the Berlin area with nearly a decade of experience building scalable, high-performance backend systems and cloud-native tooling. He has strong expertise in Go, distributed systems, and DevOps practices, evidenced by contributions to notable open-source projects like tinkerbell/tink (bare-metal provisioning) and fission (serverless on Kubernetes), where he worked on gRPC, CI/CD, database integrations, and OpenTelemetry. At IONOS and prior roles at Acquia and InfraCloud, he has driven backend architecture and reliability improvements while also tackling observability and linting/quality across complex codebases. He pairs an MTech in Software Engineering with hands-on operational chops, often bridging development and infrastructure to shorten feedback loops. A detail that stands out: beyond feature work he routinely improves developer experience—updating pipelines, docker entrypoints, and dependency hygiene to keep large systems maintainable.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceDiploma in Advanced Computing Computer Science, Diploma in Advanced Computing Computer Science at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Engineering at Rajasthan Technical University, Kota
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (23)
kubernetes10
docker10
postgresql10
dockers10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
serverless10
devops10
grpc10
cicd9
database-design9
automation9
functions-as-a-service9
automations9
opentelemetry9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
tinkerbell/tink
Oct 2019 - Apr 2022
Workflow Engine for provisioning Bare Metal
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:54 reviews, 167 commits, 93 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Gaurav primarily focused on enhancing the backend functionality, including gRPC server and client implementation. They added database scripts and client code and also modified the codebase to use a database interface. Contributions extended to managing the CI/CD pipeline through the addition of the entrypoint for the server and docker setup changes. The user was also responsible for updating dependencies.
bare-metalprovisioningmetalyangtinkerbell
fission/fission
Oct 2020 - Aug 2021
Fast and Simple Serverless Functions for Kubernetes
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:23 reviews, 9 commits, 13 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Gaurav primarily contributed to fixing typos and addressing golangci-lint issues across multiple files in the Fission repository. Their work touched on various components, including the router, executor, and buildermgr, demonstrating involvement in different aspects of the serverless platform. They also implemented changes related to OpenTelemetry integration, showcasing a focus on observability and tracing. Furthermore, the user made code adjustments and configuration changes in various other parts of the codebase, enhancing the project's overall quality and maintainability.
containersfunctionsdevopsfissionserverless
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