Nikhita Raghunath
Engineering Manager at Broadcom
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolNikhita Raghunath is an experienced engineering leader and Kubernetes core maintainer with a decade of hands-on work building cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling. Currently an Engineering Manager at Broadcom, she has led technical strategy and contributions for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and VMware Cloud Foundation while also driving CI/CD, API, and code-generation improvements across Kubernetes repos like client-go, apimachinery, and test-infra. A recognized CNCF influencer—former TOC vice chair, KubeCon chair, and CNCF Top Committer awardee—she blends deep backend and DevOps expertise with conference program leadership and public-facing keynotes. Her open-source impact includes improving Kubernetes API generation, test infrastructure, and org-level automation—work that surfaces in high-profile repos such as kubernetes/kubernetes and kubernetes/test-infra. Based in Bengaluru, she’s notable for translating low-level problems (protobufs, code generators, strategic merge patches) into scalable platform solutions and for helping grow engineering teams and community participation from India into global projects.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics Engineering at Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI)
English, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Marathi
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Github Skills (60)
kubernetes10
github-ci10
docker10
apidoc10
api-design10
testing10
jsonpath10
configuration-management10
bash10
cloud-infrastructure10
makefile10
dockers10
cicd10
gcp10
google-cloud-storage10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/community
May 2017 - Jan 2023
Kubernetes community content
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:142 reviews, 253 commits, 237 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Nikhita primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the Kubernetes community content generator. Their work involved adding support for new features, such as user groups, committees, and liaisons, and enhancing the existing validation processes. They also made adjustments to the documentation generation scripts and verified their output. The user's contributions showcase a focus on improving the organization and structure of community documentation.
kuberneteskubernetes-community
kubernetes/org
Aug 2018 - Jan 2023
Meta configuration for Kubernetes Github Org
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Test Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:190 reviews, 463 commits, 244 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Nikhita focused on improving the reliability and maintainability of the `kubernetes/org` repository's configuration. They implemented several tests to ensure the validity of team member and admin configurations, including checks for duplicates, sorting, and privacy settings. Their work also involved updating build configurations and adding tools to help manage organizational members, demonstrating a strong understanding of automation and configuration management within the Kubernetes ecosystem.
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