Hari Sekhon
London, England, United States
Summary
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RockstarHari Sekhon is a versatile cloud architect and DevOps engineer with 15 years delivering large-scale big data, Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms across finance, retail, energy and government. He has led greenfield AWS and GCP builds, production Kubernetes migrations and high‑security Hadoop/Spark deployments for firms like Anglo American, BNP Paribas, the Bank of England and Sainsbury’s. A prolific open-source maintainer, his popular repos provide production-ready Kubernetes configs, 50+ Docker images and 450+ Nagios plugins that reflect deep operational experience and CI/CD automation expertise. Comfortable as a hands-on engineer or lead architect, he blends infrastructure-as-code, observability and performance tuning to solve complex distributed-systems problems. Based in London but living the 100% remote digital-nomad lifestyle, he pairs global consulting experience with rapid, high-intensity delivery on short engagements. An unusual personal detail: he publicly declares that he loves babies almost as much as technology, hinting at a warm, down-to-earth personality behind the technical depth.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (48)
kubernetes10
github-ci10
docker10
testing10
bash10
hadoop10
containerization10
dockers10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
githubaction-workflow10
devops10
git9
presto9
automation9
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
HariSekhon/Dockerfiles
Jan 2016 - Sep 2022
50+ DockerHub public images for Docker & Kubernetes - DevOps, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins, TeamCity, Alpine, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, Hadoop, Kafka, ZooKeeper, HBase, Cassandra, Solr, SolrCloud, Presto, Apache Drill, Nifi, Spark, Consul, Riak
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:26502 commits, 10 PRs, 22078 pushes in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Hari primarily contributed to the project by creating and modifying entrypoint scripts for various Docker images, encompassing a broad range of technologies, including Consul, Serf, Tachyon, Spark, Mesos, Cassandra, and ZooKeeper. These scripts suggest configuration and orchestration of these systems within a containerized environment, making it likely the user's focus. There are also a couple of instances of fixing/updating an hbase build as well. The user also added build and check scripts related to setting up and configuring tools for various builds like Presto.
zookeepersolrdcosbitbakehbase
HariSekhon/Kubernetes-configs
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
Advanced Kubernetes YAML configs - Best Practices, Tips & Tricks, Production-Ready Checklist - experience from several production environments. AWS, GCP, Azure, ArgoCD, GKE, EKS, AKS, Nginx, Traefik, Kong, Cert Manager, CI/CD, Jenkins, Artifactory, TeamCity, GitHub Actions, Cloud SQL, FluxCD, Spinnaker, Selenium Grid, Moon, Helm + Kustomize
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2135 commits, 882 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Hari primarily contributed to the CI/CD configuration and automation within the Kubernetes-configs repository. Their work involved creating and updating a bootstrapping script, `ci_bootstrap.sh`, designed to set up CI environments on various platforms. The user also added a script to set git directory safe settings for Azure DevOps Pipelines. The commits indicate a focus on improving CI/CD processes, ensuring reliability, and resolving potential issues related to git submodule handling during builds.
nginxgcpcloud-sql-proxyveleroconfigs
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