Neeraj Laad
Architect, IBM Event Streams
Chandler's Ford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNeeraj Laad is an experienced software architect and technical leader with 11+ years driving cloud-native, event-driven and serverless platforms at IBM, currently leading architecture for IBM Event Streams. He has a strong track record launching and scaling open-source projects—most notably Appsody—and building the tooling and runtime stacks that accelerate microservice development on Kubernetes and Knative. Neeraj combines hands-on DevOps experience (integrating OpenWhisk and Helm/Ansible workflows) with product delivery skills, having led cross-functional teams to bring new event-framework products to market. His career spans deep technical roles from porting and platform work to managing multi-billion-dollar acquisition integrations, giving him rare breadth across engineering, delivery and operations. Based in Chandler's Ford, UK, he pairs formal software engineering training from Oxford with practical expertise in automation, testing infrastructure and large-scale middleware. An understated strength is his ability to translate complex integration challenges into repeatable, open-source solutions that teams can adopt quickly.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Indore Public SchoolMSc, Software Engineering, MSc, Software Engineering at University of OxfordMaster of Computer Applications (MCA), Computer Applications, Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Computer Applications at Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya
English, Hindi, Marathi
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Github Skills (14)
kubernetes10
ansible-galaxy10
docker10
helm10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods10
ansible10
cicd9
bash9
yaml8
githubaction-workflow7
github-ci7
apache-flink6
flink-statefun6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
IBM/charts
Nov 2018 - Feb 2019
The IBM/charts repository provides helm charts for IBM and Third Party middleware.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:69 commits, 1 PR, 54 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Neeraj's contributions primarily revolve around integrating and configuring OpenWhisk components within a Helm chart environment. They are responsible for setting up the initial CouchDB configuration using Ansible playbooks, including database initialization and cluster settings. The user also focuses on integrating and testing OpenWhisk components, like the route management and catalog features, with changes being merged from an upstream repository. Furthermore, the user contributes to the testing infrastructure, creating and executing a smoketest to verify basic functionality.
chartspartyhelmhelm-chartdocker
appsody/appsody-buildah
Sep 2019 - Dec 2020
A docker image with Appsody CLI installed that can be used for running Appsody with buildah in Tekton pipelines.
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 6 PRs in 1 year 3 months
docker-imagetektonappsodydockerinstalled
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