Karthik Gaekwad
Developer Relations Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolKarthik Gaekwad is a Developer Relations Engineer at Google with over a decade of hands-on experience building cloud-native platforms, microservices, and Kubernetes-based infrastructure. He blends deep engineering pedigree—from architecting managed Kubernetes services at Oracle to leading cloud-native verification at Verica—with a passion for developer advocacy, content creation, and community building across devopsdays, hackathons, and LinkedIn Learning. Based in Austin, he helps internal teams, partners, and customers implement AB testing and scalable cloud solutions while feeding real-world feedback back into product roadmaps. His open-source tinkering includes front-end improvements to one of the more popular Docker "helloworld" containers, showing a pragmatic focus on developer experience down to UI details. Known for bridging engineering, product, and community, he consistently turns complex cloud challenges into teachable, production-ready practices.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
English
Github Skills (7)
html10
javascript10
bootstrap9
bootstra9
css8
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
karthequian/docker-helloworld
Jul 2015 - Jan 2021
A simple helloworld app for docker. One of the most popular helloworld docker containers
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 17 PRs, 42 pushes in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Karthik primarily focused on front-end development, enhancing the user interface of the "docker-helloworld" application. Their contributions involved adding and modifying HTML, including adding Bootstrap for styling. The user introduced a visit counter and a real-time clock, demonstrating an understanding of basic JavaScript and cookie management, alongside the usage of external libraries. Additionally, they regularly updated the year in the footer.
containersdockerdocker-composedocker-helloworlddocker-containers
karthequian/docker-hello-kitty
Nov 2015 - Nov 2021
A whimsical hellokitty docker image.
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 11 branches in 6 years 1 month
whimsicaldocker-imagedocker
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.