Nishant Kumar
Founder at Ferrix AI
Gurugram, Haryana, India
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolNishant Kumar is a founder and engineering leader with 7 years of experience building cloud-native, AI-enabled systems that turn operational overhead into decision-making leverage. He co-founded Devtron, an open-source Kubernetes platform with 5k+ GitHub stars and enterprise adoption at Oracle, Sony and others, where he led architecture, product and scaling to millions of downloads and a team of 50+. Now leading Ferrix, he’s creating agentic tooling that synthesizes conversations, documents and tooling into execution-ready specs and release plans governed by a decision-autonomy framework. His background spans high-scale video proctoring, personalized recommendation engines, and DevOps-driven CI/CD and security improvements—skills he applies to both backend and infrastructure work. Known for shipping pragmatic, scalable systems, he combines hands-on contributions (notably API, auth and CI/CD fixes in devtron) with product-level vision to reduce toil and accelerate team decisions. Based in Gurugram, he blends startup grit with a track record of enterprise impact.
6 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B-Tech, Electronics & Communication, B-Tech, Electronics & Communication at Rajasthan Technical University, KotaHigher Senior secondary, Physics,Chemistry, Mathematics, Higher Senior secondary, Physics,Chemistry, Mathematics at Guru Gobind Singh Public School, Bokaro Steel CitySenior Secondary, Senior Secondary at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya,(JNV)
Github Skills (10)
kubernetes10
go10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
deployment-automation9
apidoc9
postgresql9
api9
kubectl8
sql7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
devtron-labs/devtron
Oct 2020 - Dec 2022
The only Kubernetes dashboard you need
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 1030 reviews, 432 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Nishant primarily focused on back-end development, making significant changes to the API key handling and security within the user authentication service. They also demonstrated DevOps skills by contributing to the CI/CD pipeline, updating SQL scripts, and correcting client timeouts. Their work involved modifications to deployment configurations and related infrastructure code.
github-botrolloutintegration-platformdashboardkubernetes-dashboard
devtron-labs/ci-runner
Oct 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:50 reviews, 107 commits, 40 PRs in 1 year 10 months
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