Navid Shaikh
Staff Engineer at VMware
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolNavid Shaikh is a Staff Engineer based in Pune with 11 years of experience building enterprise-grade software products, focused on developer tooling, CI/CD, and improving developer experience. He has driven open source projects into products—contributing to high-profile projects like Kubernetes and Knative where he improved test infrastructure, structured logging, CLI UX, and patched security-relevant components. At Red Hat he led knative/client work and integrations across serving, eventing, and OpenShift Serverless, delivering YAML-less CLI workflows and coordinating releases across distributed teams. At VMware he continues to shape platform tooling and release automation with attention to build compliance and maintainability. Known for public speaking at Red Hat Summit and DevConf, he brings strong cross-functional collaboration and a track record of turning monoliths into maintainable microservices. An underrated strength is his blend of deep back-end/devops craft with product-minded developer UX improvements that make complex cloud-native systems easier to operate.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Engineering, 70%, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Engineering, 70% at North Maharashtra University
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Github Skills (42)
kubernetes10
gnu-make10
docker10
container10
clientside10
scripting10
testing10
bash10
makefile10
dockers10
cicd10
cnc10
automation10
script10
go10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
knative/client
Feb 2019 - Mar 2021
Knative developer experience, docs, reference Knative CLI implementation
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:267 reviews, 167 commits, 201 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Navid primarily contributed to the Knative client, focusing on enhancing the user experience and functionality of the command-line interface (CLI). Their contributions included adding features, such as channel, trigger, and source management commands and the `--force` flag. The user also fixed typos, refactored code, improved test coverage, and implemented human-friendly table printing for resource listing. They were also responsible for fixing issues within the tests, ensuring the reliability and maintainability of the CLI tool.
serverlessknativekubernetesdeveloper-experiencecli
vmware-tanzu/tanzu-framework
Sep 2021 - Nov 2022
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:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 113 reviews, 30 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Navid primarily focused on improving the build process and ensuring code quality within the Tanzu Framework. They implemented and maintained license checks for shell scripts and Makefiles, demonstrating a focus on code compliance. Furthermore, the user updated the BOM retrieval versions and addressed related tooling, indicating involvement in the release management or build automation aspects of the project. The user's work also included ignoring specific directories in the license checks, refining the build process.
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