Kapil Thangavelu
Co-Founder & CTO at Stacklet
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKapil Thangavelu is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder/CTO with 18 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, developer tools, and open-source projects. Based in Washington, D.C., he blends hands-on engineering with product and organizational leadership from roles at Stacklet, AWS, and Capital One where he drove cloud adoption, governance, and cost/resiliency practices. A long-time open-source contributor, he played a key role in Cloud Custodian—now a widely used rules engine for cloud security and governance—and has contributed to AWS Chalice and other cloud tooling. Kapil’s strengths span clouds, containers, Linux, and infrastructure-as-code, with practical expertise in Terraform, KMS, and AWS deployment patterns. He has a track record of taking projects from prototype to enterprise adoption and is known for restoring and streamlining complex packaging and deployment workflows. His background includes both large-enterprise transformation and mission-driven consulting work, reflecting a rare mix of strategic vision and deep implementation chops.
17 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science History, BS Computer Science History at William & Mary
Github Skills (15)
terraformer10
aws-lambda10
cloud-infrastructure10
cloud-services10
api10
aws10
apidoc10
terraform10
python10
aws-api-gateway-v29
serverless-framework9
aws-apigateway9
docker8
dockers8
packaging7
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
cloud-custodian/cloud-custodian
Apr 2016 - Jan 2023
Rules engine for cloud security, cost optimization, and governance, DSL in yaml for policies to query, filter, and take actions on resources
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:60 releases, 2058 reviews, 1257 commits in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Kapil's contributions primarily focused on maintaining and improving the c7n-mailer packaging code, restoring previous packaging methods and dependencies, and optimizing the deployment process. They also addressed issues related to AWS resource configuration, updating policies, and configuring KMS encryption within the system. Furthermore, they demonstrated proficiency in infrastructure as code through Terraform with contributions related to setting up and configuring resources within AWS.
gcpquery-filterserverlesscompliancecloud-security
aws/chalice
May 2019 - Mar 2021
Python Serverless Microframework for AWS
Role in this project:Back-end & Cloud Engineer
Back-end & Cloud EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 14 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Kapil focused on configuring and deploying the AWS Chalice microframework for API Gateway endpoints. They made changes to support PRIVATE API endpoints and the configuration of API Gateway resource policies. Their contributions included modifications to the deployment planner, swagger generation, and validation components to enable these features, with additional support for Terraform packaging. The user further added support for CloudWatch events, enhancing the framework's event-driven capabilities.
pythonmicroframeworkpyramidaws-lambdapython27
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