Nish Krishnan
Senior Software Engineer at Temporal Technologies
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNishad Krishnan is a Staff Software Engineer in Seattle with 11 years of experience building infrastructure and observability platforms, currently focused on customer-facing OpenMetrics at Temporal. He has driven large-scale provisioning efforts at Lyft—standardizing terraform across 2000+ services and building a Temporal-backed terraform deployment platform forked from Atlantis—and contributes to the upstream Atlantis project with backend and DevOps fixes. Comfortable across languages from Java and C++ to embedded C and VHDL, Nishad pairs low-level hardware experience (oscilloscopes, FPGA boards, serial interfaces) with cloud-native system design. Known as a pragmatic, people-oriented leader, he excels at communication, public speaking, and translating complex requirements into reliable, testable systems. He brings a pattern of shipping operationally critical infrastructure and improving developer workflows, often surfacing subtle credential and merge-strategy bugs that matter in production.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Pickering HighBachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (9)
terraformer10
go10
atlantis10
devops10
terraform10
github9
automation9
automations9
golang8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
runatlantis/atlantis
Oct 2020 - Mar 2022
Terraform Pull Request Automation
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 releases, 150 reviews, 42 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Nish contributed to the project by fixing the merge strategy for GitHub applications, improving the functionality of the project command builder, and ensuring the correct use of refreshed credentials when updating remotes. Furthermore, the user implemented support for fetching the GitHub app user, upgraded pegomock, and added support for extra arguments to the policy check step runner. Their work demonstrates involvement in both backend logic and DevOps-related tasks, particularly in the context of automating Terraform pull requests.
atlantisgolangdevopsgopull-request
lyft/atlantis
Sep 2020 - Feb 2023
Terraform automation for GitHub PRs (private fork of runatlantis/atlantis)
Contributions:983 reviews, 426 commits, 479 PRs in 2 years 4 months
atlantisautomationprsterraform
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