Kavin Aravind
Software Engineer at Shipa
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKavin Aravind is a software engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native and backend systems, currently contributing to Shipa from the San Francisco Bay Area. He has a strong IBM pedigree, progressing from intern to staff engineer while working on big data and distributed systems, and holds an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and a BS from Virginia Tech. Kavin’s open-source work on Ketch demonstrates practical expertise in Kubernetes application delivery, especially around volume management, persistent volumes, and improving CLI ergonomics and test coverage. He blends hands-on DevOps and backend development with a research-oriented curiosity—evident from early multi-touch systems work—and stays focused on new technologies and reliable, production-ready solutions.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia TechMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, tamil (receptive bilingual)
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml9
cli9
command-line9
command-line-interface9
docker8
dockers8
testing7
lambda6
oracle6
statefulset6
java6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
theketchio/ketch
Apr 2022 - Jun 2022
Ketch is an application delivery framework that facilitates the deployment and management of applications on Kubernetes using a simple command line interface
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 31 commits, 12 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Kavin primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Ketch application delivery framework, focusing on features related to volume management. They added command-line flags, data structures, and validations for volume-related options. Furthermore, the user updated the application deployment process to accommodate persistent volume claims and stateful sets where applicable. They also improved the error messages, and added tests to increase the project's quality.
command-line-interfacekubernetes
shipa-corp/homebrew-cli
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
Homebrew tap for shipa-io projects, in particular shipa-client, shipa-cloud-client
Contributions:29 commits, 4 pushes in 13 days
homebrew
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