Summary
Harikrishnan Balagopal is a software engineer with nine years of experience, currently developing cloud-native solutions at IBM and helping maintain the open-source Move2Kube project. He specializes in Kubernetes-based microservices, REST integrations, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Tekton), and performance tuning across development and testing lifecycles. With an MTech in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur, he blends strong academic foundations with practical experience shipping production features and debugging complex systems. Based in Thrissur, Kerala, he brings a pragmatic open-source mindset—contributing to tooling that simplifies cloud migration—while quietly balancing hands-on engineering with developer-focused collaboration.
9 years of coding experience
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur