Mangaal Meetei is a software engineer specializing in GitOps and cloud-native tooling, currently contributing to the Argo project at Red Hat with 7 years of engineering experience. He has a proven track record in enhancing Argo CD—enabling applications to operate across namespaces, adding wildcard support, and improving CLI commands and repo-server discovery—work that impacts a widely used open-source CD tool. His background spans backend, DevOps, and API development for eCommerce, with hands-on experience migrating data between MongoDB and Firestore and integrating payment gateways. Mangaal is skilled in observability and automation, building Prometheus/Grafana federated setups, Alertmanager integrations, and Knative-driven dashboard automation. He also focuses on security and access control, implementing Keycloak-based authentication and custom Kubernetes resources for RBAC over dashboards. Based in Manipur and an NIT Manipur alumnus, he combines pragmatic production experience with active open-source contributions that improve developer workflows.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at NIT Manipur
Contributions:8 reviews, 14 PRs, 20 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Mangaal primarily contributed to enhancing the Argo CD CLI, adding and modifying flags to existing commands such as `get`, `diff`, `wait`, `sync`, `set`, `unset`, `add-source`, and `remove-source` to enable application namespace specification. They also fixed a bug related to the `remove-source` command. Furthermore, they updated the `argocd app history` command to support multiple sources. They also worked on enhancing the repo server retrieval process, leveraging labels for service discovery in the context of Kubernetes.
Contributions:112 pushes, 25 branches in 10 months
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Mangaal Meetei - Software Engineer - GitOps at Red Hat