Hrishi S
Mentor at Cleantech Open
Milpitas, California, United States
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Top SchoolHrishi S is a mentor and GTM strategy leader based in Milpitas with 12 years of cross-functional experience bridging engineering and marketing. He pairs hands-on backend and DevOps contributions to prominent open-source projects like Tekton—improving pipeline observability and CLI reliability—with strategic GTM and advisory roles for startups and accelerators. His background spans engineering roles at large enterprises through 2010 and marketing leadership across Fortune 500s, giving him a rare fluency in both product engineering and go-to-market execution. Currently he mentors founders at Cleantech Open, StartOut, Silicon Catalyst and IIT Startups while advising and investing in early-stage climate and SaaS ventures. Notably, his GitHub motto—“how hard we PUSH doesn't matter unless we COMMIT first”—captures a pragmatic approach: focus on durable, committed improvements that scale from code to commercial traction.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
IIT Bombay
Stackoverflow
370reputation
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Github Skills (21)
kubernetes10
testing10
command-line-interface10
tekton10
go10
pipeline10
kubernetes-pods10
command-line10
cli10
cicd9
docker8
dockers8
mongodb6
fabric6
junit6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
tektoncd/cli
May 2019 - Oct 2019
A CLI for interacting with Tekton!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 29 commits, 21 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Hrishi focused on resolving dependency issues and improving the command-line interface (CLI) functionality of the Tekton project. Their contributions involved fixing status display problems and improving test cases, particularly within the pipelinerun command. They modified date format columns and corrected the processing of status information to accurately represent the state of PipelineRuns, enhancing the user experience and debugging capabilities.
pipelinetektoncommand-linetekton-pipelinescli
tektoncd/pipeline
Mar 2019 - Mar 2020
A cloud-native Pipeline resource.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits, 13 PRs, 111 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Hrishi's contributions focused on improving the Tekton pipeline by addressing several issues and enhancing its functionality. They removed references to the "build" keyword in TaskRun, added the PipelineTask name as a label in TaskRun for easier log identification, and incorporated container names into the step status to improve API usability. Furthermore, the user implemented and fixed metrics-related unit tests and corrected serialization/deserialization issues related to container specs within steps.
containerspipelinetektonresource-managementkubernetes
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