Naadir Jeewa
Staff Engineer (Tanzu Kubernetes Grid) at VMware
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNaadir Jeewa is a Staff Engineer at VMware specialising in Tanzu Kubernetes Grid with 12 years' experience building and hardening cloud-native infrastructure. He designs and implements Cluster API control plane features—such as etcd monitoring, API-server TCP proxying and multi-cloud host attestation—contributing to both product releases and upstream Kubernetes projects. An active open-source maintainer and contributor to high-profile projects like cluster-api and tanzu-framework, he’s refactored core tooling (Kind client) and improved AWS and vSphere provider integrations. Naadir blends backend and DevOps expertise with security-minded engineering, having co-authored a Cluster API security assessment and designed NIST-aligned attestation and SELinux revamps. He mentors engineers into open-source maintainers and frequently represents the project at KubeCon and other community events. Based in the UK, he pairs deep systems knowledge with practical product delivery across multi-cloud environments.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Politics and Society, 1st Class, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Politics and Society, 1st Class at Birkbeck, U. of LondonMSci Hons., Computer Science, MSci Hons., Computer Science at University College London, U. of London
English
Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
docker10
dockers10
go10
aws10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
cluster-api10
haproxy10
devops10
templating10
etcd9
bazel8
bash8
cicd8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
vmware-tanzu/tanzu-framework
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Tanzu Framework provides a set of building blocks to build atop of the Tanzu platform and leverages Carvel packaging and plugins to provide users with a much stronger, more integrated experience than the loose coupling and stand-alone commands of the previous generation of tools.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:124 reviews, 64 commits, 170 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Naadir primarily focused on refactoring the Kind client to utilize Kind configuration types, replacing string templating. This involved modifying the client code to interact with Kubernetes-in-Docker clusters more effectively. In addition, the user updated AWS configuration options for the Tanzu Framework, adding new variables for disk size and security group overrides. Further contributions include bumping cluster API versions and excluding sensitive AWS credentials from being saved in configuration files.
carvelbuilding-blocksintegratedleveragesstand
kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-vsphere
Aug 2019 - Nov 2022
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:57 reviews, 32 commits, 33 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Naadir Jeewa contributed significantly to the `cluster-api-provider-vsphere` repository by implementing features related to HAProxy load balancer configuration and cloud provider integration. They were involved in enhancing HAProxy configuration through string templating, ensuring correct HTTPS checks and optimized control plane joins. Furthermore, they focused on refactoring the codebase and adding support for extra cloud provider arguments.
k8s-sig-vmwarecluster-apik8s-sig-cluster-lifecycle
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