Kedar Kekan
Head Of Engineering at Monaire
Pune District, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolKedar Kekan is a technology leader and founder with over 17 years of experience building cloud-native and AI-driven SaaS products, currently heading engineering at Monaire to deliver an AI-powered IoT platform for HVAC/R management. He blends hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the widely used Ansible project—with strategic product and team leadership from his time co-founding Airavana. Kedar has a track record of aligning engineering roadmaps to business outcomes: improving productivity, cutting costs, and driving revenue through practical, scalable solutions. His background spans startups and enterprises (Qualys, Red Hat, Cisco, Verizon, GE Healthcare), giving him deep experience in systems software, cloud orchestration, and security-focused SaaS. He mentors teams to ship reliable, auditable systems while keeping a pragmatic focus on measurable impact. Based in Pune, he combines engineering depth with founder-level product instincts and a history of shipping real-world automation and networking improvements in open source.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceBachelor of Engineering - BE Electronics & Telecommunication, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electronics & Telecommunication at Pune Institute of Computer Technology
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Github Skills (11)
ansible10
network-automation10
ansible-galaxy10
python10
devops9
mac-address6
mobile-phones6
sizeof6
makefile6
iphone6
tcp6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
Sep 2017 - Feb 2018
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:33 commits, 56 PRs, 30 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Kedar primarily contributed to the Ansible project by addressing specific module-related issues. They fixed idempotence in the `nxos_pim_rp_address` module and added sub-interface support for `nxos_interface` and `nxos_ip_interface` modules. Furthermore, the user made changes to the `iosxr_netconf` module, adding and improving the Netconf sub-system service for Cisco IOS-XR devices, as well as performing various refactoring and cleaning of code.
everythingpythonit-automationdevopsdeployment
kedarX/ansible
Sep 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:151 pushes, 54 branches in 2 years 1 month
pythonit-automationdevopsansibleplain-english
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