Navaneeth K N
Head Of Engineering, Cloud Optimization
Bengaluru, Karnataka, United States
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Top SchoolNavaneeth K N is a seasoned software leader with 14 years of experience who currently heads Engineering for Cloud Optimization, bringing deep expertise in cloud cost reduction and backend systems. As co-founder and CTO of Lightwing, he helped build an intelligent cloudops automation product that cuts public cloud costs by up to 90% and is used by organizations from startups to enterprises like Wipro, with backing from Techstars and NetApp/Accel programs. He began his career building testing tools—founding Gauge, a lightweight cross-platform BDD test framework written in Go—and has made substantive core contributions to its initialization, runner execution, and build process. Navaneeth combines hands-on development, product leadership, and startup scaling experience across roles at Harness, Alation, ThoughtWorks and Sahaj, with a proven track record of architecting pragmatic, production-ready systems. Based in Bengaluru, he blends technical depth in backend and cloud optimization with entrepreneurial instincts that drive measurable cost and operational improvements.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Applications, Computer Science, Master of Computer Applications, Computer Science at Bharathiar University
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Github Skills (14)
go10
test-automation10
build-automation9
api8
apidoc8
githubaction-workflow7
github-ci7
ide6
behavior-driven-development6
cross-platform6
programming-language6
webservice6
dockers5
docker5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
getgauge/gauge
Mar 2014 - Dec 2015
Light weight cross-platform test automation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 1 push, 25 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Navaneeth primarily focused on implementing and refactoring core functionalities within the Gauge test automation framework. Their contributions involved modifying source code related to initialization, runner execution, and network communication. The user also introduced features such as environment flag management and specification file formatting. Furthermore, they made changes to the project's build process and dependencies.
acceptance-testinggolanglight-weighttest-automationlight
navaneeth/navaneeth.github.com
May 2015 - Jun 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 37 pushes in 6 years 1 month
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