Kedar Kulkarni is a Senior Software Engineer in DevOps with 11 years of experience building and automating large-scale hybrid infrastructure for companies including Apple, VMware and Red Hat. He specializes in Kubernetes, OpenShift/OVN, virtualization (vSphere, RHV, OpenStack) and Ansible-driven automation, having led the design and open-sourced an Ansible Tower Configurations-as-Code platform that saved his teams hundreds of hours. Kedar combines hands-on engineering—performance and scalability work on OVN-Kubernetes and STIG security compliance for k8s—with operational ownership of ~50 bare-metal servers and multiple automated virtualization environments. He mentors engineers, runs architecture reviews, and bridges cross-functional teams to deliver secure, scalable systems globally. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he prefers improving existing open-source tools over reinventing the wheel and contributes to projects like ManageIQ integration_tests.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Engineering at MIT College of Engineering, Pune
Contributions:24 commits, 106 PRs, 654 comments in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Kedar primarily contributed to the integration tests for the ManageIQ project. Their work focused on updating and adding tests, particularly related to VNC and HTML5 consoles, and ensuring proper functionality with different providers like VMware. They also added tests for V2V migrations, verifying functionality around Mac addresses and various configurations. The user's commits included fixes and enhancements to existing test infrastructure.
Contributions:3 releases, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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Kedar Kulkarni - Senior Software Engineer - DevOps at Apple