Naman Lakhwani
Software Engineer at ALLEN Digital
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolNaman Lakhwani is a software engineer with six years of experience building cloud-native back-end and DevOps solutions, currently working on high-impact systems at ALLEN Digital. He has a strong Go ecosystem background and proven open-source contributions to CNCF projects like Thanos and Kyverno, where he added TLS automation, image verification features, and important tsdb/store matcher support. Naman has driven measurable product and performance gains—shipping a referral service that boosted user acquisition by 20% and cutting notification latency by 50%—and has optimized large-scale infrastructure such as node pools and image streaming for platforms serving hundreds of thousands of users. Comfortable across CI/CD, e2e testing, and security hardening, he also automated release and testing workflows that saved release engineers dozens of hours per cycle. Outside work he’s an avid reader who values family time, a detail that keeps his problem-solving grounded and pragmatic.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Integrated post graduation (B.Tech. + M.Tech.) Information Technology, Integrated post graduation (B.Tech. + M.Tech.) Information Technology at ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and ManagementCBSE - 12th 94.2 %, CBSE - 12th 94.2 % at Lord Krishna Public School, Datia (M.P.)ICSE - 10th 94.33 %, ICSE - 10th 94.33 % at Holy Cross Ashram School , Datia (M.P.)
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Github Skills (31)
monitoring10
kubernetes10
group-policy10
scripting10
high-availability10
testing10
policies10
cosign10
script10
go10
prometheus10
kubernetes-pods10
sh10
shell10
devops10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
thanos-io/thanos
Dec 2020 - Oct 2021
Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:50 reviews, 42 commits, 15 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Naman contributed to back-end functionality by adding support for matchers in the `tsdb` store and the sidecar component. They fixed UI styling issues and addressed react UI bugs within the project. The user also implemented unit tests, addressed requested changes, and contributed to automatic certificate rotation without restarting the server.
promqlobservabilityprometheusstoragegoogle-cloud-storage
kyverno/kyverno
Sep 2021 - Apr 2022
Cloud Native Policy Management
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:56 reviews, 35 commits, 36 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Naman primarily contributed to enhancing the Kyverno project's security and functionality, focusing on image verification. They implemented support for Cosign key-value annotations, added issuer and subject checks for keyless signing, and added a digest mutation feature for image verification. Their work involved modifying the `pkg/cosign` and `api/kyverno` packages to incorporate new verification methods and parameters, and also added tests for the introduced features.
policycosignpolicy-managementk8skubernetes
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