Kushal Bhandari
Senior Software Engineer at Axon
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKushal Bhandari is a senior software engineer with a decade of experience building highly available, distributed, and scalable systems across security-sensitive and cloud-native domains. Currently at Axon in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, he combines hands-on backend development with techno-functional consulting, requirement gathering, and team mentoring. He has a strong CI/DevOps orientation and contributed an UltraDNS provider to the widely used external-dns Kubernetes project, demonstrating practical expertise integrating third-party APIs into cloud orchestration tooling. His background spans enterprise and product engineering roles at Neustar and earlier leadership positions in India, supported by an MS in Computer and Information Systems Security. Known for turning complex requirements into reliable production services, he brings both architectural judgment and attention to operational detail.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer and Information Systems Security, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer and Information Systems Security at Pace UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science at M.I.T.M., Indore
Github Skills (10)
apim10
kubernetes10
go10
api10
dns10
go-testing10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
docker8
dockers8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/external-dns
May 2020 - Jul 2020
Configure external DNS servers (AWS Route53, Google CloudDNS and others) for Kubernetes Ingresses and Services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 1 PR, 24 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Kushal implemented and finalized an "ultradns" provider plugin for the external-dns project, which configures external DNS servers for Kubernetes services. Their contributions involved modifying the core configuration files, adding new provider options, and creating test cases. This included implementing the logic to interact with the UltraDNS API and integrating it with the overall external-dns architecture. Further work included domain filter scenarios and addressing integration challenges.
gcproute53dnsexternal-dnsk8s-sig-network
ultradns/java_rest_api_client
Jul 2019 - Apr 2020
A sample Java client for communicating with the UltraDNS REST API
Contributions:28 commits, 21 PRs, 5 pushes in 9 months
apiclient-libraryrestrest-apijava
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