Nirav Parikh
Lead Product Engineer at Improving
Greater Coimbatore Area India
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Top SchoolNirav Parikh is a Lead Product Engineer with 7 years of cloud-native and infrastructure-focused experience, currently shaping product and architecture at Improving (formerly InfraCloud). He specializes in building scalable backend systems and developer-facing tooling, and is the maintainer of Paralus, a CNCF Sandbox project that streamlines Kubernetes access, RBAC, SSO and auditability. Nirav blends hands-on backend and DevOps work—adding proxy support, auth bootstrapping refinements, and dev-mode ergonomics—with mentoring engineers on design, risk reduction, and estimable delivery. His background spans Java/Spring microservices, Kafka, PL/SQL and container orchestration, giving him a practical full-stack systems perspective. Based in Coimbatore, he pairs production-grade engineering discipline with a knack for turning complex infra problems into user-friendly operational tools.
7 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Stanes higher secondary schoolBachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Engineering at Karunya University
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Github Skills (11)
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
devops9
user-authentication9
authentication9
cloud-security9
database-management8
duplicates6
sql6
tsql6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
paralus/paralus
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
All-in-one Kubernetes access manager. User-level credentials, RBAC, SSO, audit logs.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 releases, 175 reviews, 131 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Nirav focused on enhancing the backend infrastructure and access management features of the Kubernetes access manager. They excluded specific methods during the bootstrap registration for authentication. The user also introduced a development mode as a default and incorporated the fixes for casbin duplicate issues and resolving the same during initialization. Further, they added changes to support proxy configurations, fixed formating issues, and made updates for the cluster and kubectl.
kubernetesrbacaccess-managementcloud-securityk8s-access-management
paralus/relay
Apr 2022 - Nov 2022
Relay server and agent for kubernetes cluster interactions
Contributions:5 releases, 48 reviews, 22 commits in 6 months
kubernetes-clusterjust-in-time-accessmtls-authenticationweb-socketztka-agents
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