Jaideep Rao
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Old Toronto, Ontario, United States
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Top SchoolJaideep Rao is a Senior Software Engineer with 9 years of experience specializing in cloud-native platforms, DevOps automation, and backend systems, currently contributing to AI efforts at Red Hat. He has deep hands-on experience with OpenShift, Argo CD and GitOps—authoring e2e tests and configuration changes that harden multi-namespace deployments and permissions in widely used operators. A UMass Amherst CS graduate who began as an OpenShift intern, he blends production-grade engineering with research and teaching experience, having served as a graduate TA and mentored ML projects. Known for pragmatic cross-team collaboration, he pairs strong systems thinking with practical automation skills that accelerate developer workflows. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved operator robustness and CI validation for projects relied on by the Kubernetes ecosystem.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science at Bhartiya Vidya Bhavans Sardar Patel Institute of Technology Munshi Nagar Andheri MumbaiMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
English, Hindi, Marathi
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Github Skills (19)
e2e-testing10
kubernetes10
e2e-test10
gitops10
argocd10
automation10
go10
openshift10
kubernetes-pods10
golang10
automations10
operator-sdk10
api-design9
cicd9
kubernetes-operator9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
argoproj-labs/argocd-operator
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
A Kubernetes operator for managing Argo CD clusters.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:323 reviews, 45 commits, 253 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Jaideep primarily contributed to the backend infrastructure and operational aspects of the Argo CD operator. Their work included upgrading ingress configurations, modifying the config map for resource inclusions, bumping CronJob API versions, and removing managed namespaces from the cluster secret after deletion. They also migrated Dex configurations and addressed issues with OpenShift setups. Their changes span core codebase modifications and configuration management related to the operator's internal workings and integrations.
golangoperator-sdkclustersargocdopenshift
redhat-developer/gitops-operator
Jun 2021 - Nov 2022
An operator that gets you an ArgoCD for cluster configuration out-of-the-box on OpenShift along with the UI for visualizing environments.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:92 reviews, 50 commits, 73 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Jaideep primarily contributed to the GitOps operator by implementing and refining end-to-end (e2e) tests. Their work focused on validating the operator's behavior, specifically managing ArgoCD instances in non-default namespaces and validating permissions. They also updated the project's dependencies and ensured proper permissions by using labels. Furthermore, they developed tests related to revoking permissions, confirming that the operator functions as intended.
boxargocdout-of-the-boxopenshiftoperator
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