Navraj Chhina
Site Reliability Engineer III at Google
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNavraj Chhina is a Site Reliability Engineer III based in Waterloo, Ontario with nine years of experience building secure, production-grade infrastructure and service mesh integrations. At Google he focuses on InfraSec SRE work, blending reliability engineering with security controls and operational automation. He has a strong open-source footprint in the Istio ecosystem—contributing to istio, istio/api and istio.io—and has improved TLS/gateway configurations, docs, and tests, plus security-focused tooling like Shopify’s kubeaudit. Navraj’s background spans SRE roles and internships across Google, Shopify, LinkedIn and XE.com, giving him hands-on experience in containerization, CI/CD, Terraform, and automating cluster security fixes. Colleagues describe him as someone who pairs deep protocol-level knowledge with pragmatic tooling delivery—think “Kubemobile > Batmobile” engineering that prioritizes secure, observable systems.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Software Engineering Honours with co-op, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Software Engineering Honours with co-op at University of Waterloo
English, Punjabi, Hindi
Github Skills (33)
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
tls1210
protocol-buffers10
testing10
audit10
policies10
tls1310
cicd10
mtls10
automation10
go10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/kubeaudit
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
kubeaudit helps you audit your Kubernetes clusters against common security controls
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 releases, 24 commits, 60 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Navraj primarily contributed to the automated fixing of security vulnerabilities within the Kubernetes cluster auditing tool. They added autofix features for network policies, deprecated service account tokens, and namespace configurations. Additionally, the user implemented automated tests and increased code coverage, demonstrating a focus on improving the tool's reliability and functionality within the Kubernetes ecosystem.
golangsecurity-controlsauditsecurityclusters
istio/api
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
API definitions for the Istio project
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 29 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Navraj contributed to the Istio API definitions, focusing on the configuration of TLS settings for gateways and destination rules. Their work involved modifying protocol buffer definitions and associated code, specifically adding and updating fields related to credential names and certificate handling. Furthermore, the user addressed documentation inconsistencies and made code adjustments to reflect changes in TLS-related configurations.
apiistiokubernetesdefinitions
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