Hemanth Krishna
Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolHemanth Krishna is a versatile full-stack generalist with eight years of hands-on experience building Android apps, web backends, DevOps/infrastructure, and working with blockchain and distributed systems. He has shipped production features at Cisco’s IIoT team and contributed significant backend and CLI improvements to prominent CNCF projects like LitmusChaos and Keptn, including optimizing authentication services and enhancing CLI UX. A Google Summer of Code and LFX mentee alum, he has a track record of improving performance (e.g., reducing API response times and optimizing auth servers) and implementing clean, scalable architectures. He co-founded kofferX and has delivered end-to-end features from device-tracking on industrial switches to customer-facing mobile apps, demonstrating both product and systems thinking. Comfortable in Go, Rust, Python, Kotlin and cloud-native tooling, he pairs pragmatic engineering with open-source collaboration. Notably, his contributions span low-level protocol work and developer UX, reflecting a rare mix of systems depth and practical developer tooling focus.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science with Specialization in IoT, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science with Specialization in IoT at Vellore Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (46)
kubernetes10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
command-line-interface10
user-authentication10
authentication10
mongodb-database10
go10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
jwt10
command-line10
orchestration10
orchestra10
backend10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
litmuschaos/litmus
Mar 2021 - Oct 2021
Litmus helps SREs and developers practice chaos engineering in a Cloud-native way. Chaos experiments are published at the ChaosHub (https://hub.litmuschaos.io). Community notes is at https://hackmd.io/a4Zu_sH4TZGeih-xCimi3Q
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:31 reviews, 9 commits, 6 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Hemanth primarily focused on backend development for the Litmus Chaos project, specifically working on authentication server features within the litmus-portal. They implemented user management, authentication APIs, and integrated JWT authentication. The user also contributed to the dex-server, customizing the interface with Litmus brandings and configurations. Furthermore, they also configured CORS settings in the authentication server's main application file to resolve CORS issues and enhanced frontend functionalities, making use of `/login` route with JWT tokens from Dex authentication.
chaosnotessite-reliability-engineeringoperatorchaos-experiments
keptn/keptn
Feb 2021 - Jun 2021
Cloud-native application life-cycle orchestration. Keptn automates your SLO-driven multi-stage delivery and operations & remediation of your applications.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 8 commits, 8 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Hemanth primarily contributed to the Keptn CLI, focusing on feature additions and bug fixes. They implemented autocompletion functionality, improved upgrade messages, and enhanced authentication messages within the CLI. Additionally, the user added functionality for sending events and incorporated labels for event triggers. Their work primarily involved modifications to CLI commands and related functionalities.
multi-stageautomatescycledata-drivenorchestration
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