Kunal Kushwaha
DevOps Engineer
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolKunal Kushwaha is a DevOps-focused technical architect with over two decades of experience designing cloud-native, resilient systems and leading global engineering teams. Based in Tokyo, he blends hands-on backend and DevOps work with strategic cloud architecture, having driven platform and product delivery at Microsoft, Nuance, NTT, and other large enterprises. Kunal is an active open-source contributor to foundational container projects — including containerd, BuildKit, Podman, Docker/Moby — where his work improved debugging, executors, networking, and test coverage for widely used runtimes and builders. He specializes in infrastructure-as-code, end-to-end CI/CD automation, and developer productivity, and is currently building AgenticGoKit to fuse agentic AI patterns with Go microservices for event-driven systems. Known for pairing deep technical chops with practical delivery, he frequently surfaces low-level improvements that yield measurable reliability and performance gains across complex distributed platforms.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MCS, Computer Science, MCS, Computer Science at Fergusson CollegeBCS, Computer Science, BCS, Computer Science at HAL college of ScienceSainik School Kapurthala
Github Skills (46)
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
buildkite10
networkmanager10
testing10
net10
networking10
dockers10
cicd10
docker-api10
containerd10
go10
manage10
kubernetes-pods10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
containerd/containerd
Dec 2015 - Mar 2018
An open and reliable container runtime
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:25 commits, 34 PRs, 118 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Kunal made significant contributions to the containerd project, including bug fixes, feature additions, and enhancements. They focused on improving the debugging capabilities by exposing pprof and expvars interfaces and adding ctr pprof support. The user also reorganized the dist subcommands and made modifications to the container object by adding timestamps and adding multiple test cases. Additionally, they contributed to the test suite by adding multiple snapshot tests.
containersisolationcontainerdrustruntime
moby/moby
May 2015 - Apr 2019
The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 8 PRs, 49 comments in 4 years
Contributions summary:Kunal primarily contributed to improving the Docker project, focusing on networking and build configurations. Their work included fixing bugs related to network commands, adding features for plugin retrieval in networking and volumes, and updating service handling for volume replacement. They also configured builder entitlements for BuildKit to enable network-host and security-insecure features. The commits also demonstrate work on the API and daemon logic.
containerscollaborative-projectgolangcontainer-ecosystemdocker
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