Pavan Nagaraj
Technical Lead at Spectro Cloud
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolPavan Nagaraj is a Technical Lead with 11 years of software engineering experience and over 9 years building end-to-end cloud-native products, currently leading platform efforts at Spectro Cloud. He is fluent in Go and TypeScript and brings deep hands-on expertise across Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Argo CD, Prometheus and multi-cloud deployments (GCP/AWS/GKE), with strong DevOps automation using GitHub Actions, CircleCI and Jenkins. Pavan has a proven track record improving reliability and observability in production—contributing to the well-known replicatedhq/kots project by fixing preflight/deployment issues, hardening session management and automating cleanup tasks. He balances performance tuning and maintainability with customer empathy, prioritizing supportable solutions and clear operational runbooks. Comfortable both coding and mentoring, he moved from senior engineer roles at Replicated, Lightbend and SAP into technical leadership while holding a Master’s in Computer Science from Concordia. An under-the-radar strength is his blend of backend and DevOps fluency, enabling him to close the gap between developer ergonomics and production stability.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Concordia UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at P E S Institute of Technology, BANGALORE
English, Hindi, Kannada
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Github Skills (22)
kubernetes10
gitops10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
golang10
git9
debugging9
dockers9
git-submodules9
docker9
apidoc8
api8
cicd8
jpa6
bugtracking6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
replicatedhq/kots
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
KOTS provides the framework, tools and integrations that enable the delivery and management of 3rd-party Kubernetes applications, a.k.a. Kubernetes Off-The-Shelf (KOTS) Software.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:116 reviews, 61 commits, 121 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Pavan primarily worked on enhancing the KOTS platform's functionality and stability. Their contributions included bug fixes related to strict preflights, deployment blocking, and session management. The user also updated dependencies, improved logging and comments and refactored code for better maintainability. Additionally, they implemented a cron job for purging expired sessions.
golangpartykubernetes-applicationsshelfgo
pavansokkenagaraj/Auction-System-Google-App-Engine
Oct 2015 - Aug 2021
Auction System implemented in Google App Engine
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 10 months
auction-systemgoogle-appapp-enginegooglefirebase
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