Pavan Gudiwada
Senior Software Engineer - Developer Relations
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Top SchoolPavan Gudiwada is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Developer Relations with 9 years of experience building cloud-native observability and SRE tooling. Based in Chennai, he maintains the CNCF-adjacent HolmesGPT OSS project and drives developer adoption through hands-on engineering, docs, and product-led advocacy. At Robusta and Freshworks he shipped UI/UX and AI-driven observability features, closed 50+ product tickets, and used prototypes powered by AI to accelerate validation cycles. He combines practical DevOps expertise—Prometheus, Grafana, Kubernetes, AKS, CI/CD—with strong developer experience work such as comprehensive documentation and deployment automation. Pavan’s background as an Azure DevOps engineer and contributor to popular repos like robusta-dev/robusta reflects an uncommon blend of implementation, writing, and community leadership. He’s known for turning customer conversations into shipped features and improving onboarding to increase open-source adoption.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science and Engineering at Saveetha Engineering College
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Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
documentation10
alerts9
alertview9
alertdialog9
alertifyjs9
helm9
automations8
automation8
devops8
python7
pyperclip6
docker6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
robusta-dev/robusta
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Better Prometheus alerts for Kubernetes - smart grouping, AI enrichment, and automatic remediation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & DevOps Engineer
Technical Writer & DevOps EngineerContributions:107 reviews, 66 commits, 200 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Pavan primarily contributed to the project's documentation, making significant updates and additions to installation guides, tutorials, and configuration instructions. They updated sink configurations for various integrations like Discord, Slack, and others. Additionally, the user modified build scripts and documentation to support the `--port` option, demonstrating a focus on developer experience and deployment configuration.
optimizationspythonobservabilitydeveloper-toolsnotifications
pavangudiwada/kubernetesguides
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
Simplified Visual guides for Kubernetes
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 9 months
k8skubernetessimplifiedk8s-guides
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