Keerthan Ekbote
Staff Software Engineer at GEICO Tech
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolKeerthan Ekbote is a Staff Software Engineer with 8 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling, now based in Atlanta and working at GEICO Tech. He has a strong background in backend and DevOps, honed through multiple roles at solo.io where he advanced from Software Engineer to Principal, and as maintainer of the kgateway open-source API/AI gateway. His contributions to well-known projects like Gloo Edge and Flagger show deep expertise in Kubernetes, Helm, progressive delivery, and observability—improving validation, error handling, and deployment testing. Keerthan combines rigorous engineering (Summa Cum Laude from UMass Amherst) with practical production experience, often focusing on making complex distributed systems more reliable and testable. Colleagues can count on him for pragmatic improvements that bridge developer UX and operational robustness.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Summa Cum Laude, Summa Cum Laude at University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Github Skills (18)
kubernetes10
cicd10
go10
helm10
api-gateway10
kubernetes-pods10
testing9
continuous-delivery9
progressive-web-apps9
gitops9
prometheus8
yaml8
dockers7
cloud-native7
docker7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
kgateway-dev/kgateway
Oct 2020 - Oct 2022
The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:48 releases, 384 reviews, 196 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Keerthan primarily focused on improving the "glooctl check" feature, which is responsible for validating Gloo Edge configurations. Their contributions include writing tests for the "glooctl check" command, and also improving error handling for the tool. Additionally, the user made improvements to the Helm chart, by disabling the gateway proxy object if it's disabled in the helm chart and creating other k8s resources.
api-gatewayfeature-richgrpcserverlesslegacy-apps
fluxcd/flagger
Apr 2021 - Aug 2021
Progressive delivery Kubernetes operator (Canary, A/B Testing and Blue/Green deployments)
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 16 commits, 8 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Keerthan primarily contributed to the creation and maintenance of Gloo Edge configuration, specifically related to upstream services and route tables. Their work involved creating Gloo upstreams for Kubernetes services, integrating with Kubernetes services, and updating route tables for traffic management. They also made changes to test infrastructure, including disabling discovery by default and updating Prometheus queries, demonstrating familiarity with the project's deployment and monitoring aspects. The commits showcase their understanding of Gloo Edge, Kubernetes, and related testing and monitoring configurations.
nginxoperatorcontouristiogloo
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