Pawan Pinjarkar
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolPawan Pinjarkar is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience specializing in cloud-native deployments, DevOps automation, and backend systems, currently contributing to OpenShift at Red Hat from Raleigh, NC. He has deep hands-on experience automating OpenShift cluster deployments and agent-based installers, contributing to prominent open-source projects like openshift-metal3/dev-scripts, assisted-service, and the OpenShift installer. Comfortable across Node.js, Java, Python and container orchestration, he combines CI/CD expertise with infrastructure work—implementing Ignition overrides, CSR auto-approval, systemd service integrations, and advanced network configuration. Pawan’s background includes leading teams and delivering production-grade solutions across telecom, banking, and IBM cloud platforms, and he’s built award-winning automation and chatbot tooling in prior roles. He pairs a Master’s in Data Science from Indiana University Bloomington with practical engineering discipline, often bridging gaps between onsite clients and offshore teams. A curious technologist, he brings both open-source contributor mindset and pragmatic delivery focus to complex deployment challenges.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Data Science, A, Master of Science (M.S.), Data Science, A at Indiana University Bloomington
English, Marathi, Hindi, Sanskrit
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Github Skills (29)
kubernetes10
bare-metal10
apidoc10
scripting10
bash10
cicd10
metal10
automation10
script10
go10
openshift10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
sh10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/assisted-service
Aug 2020 - Sep 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:147 reviews, 45 commits, 84 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Pawan primarily contributed to the backend logic and configuration of the assisted-service project, specifically focusing on integrating Ignition configuration overrides, and setting up and maintaining infrastructure components. The user implemented new features to allow users to customize ignition configs via annotations on BareMetalHosts. The user also worked on improving tests, and integrating a solution to enable auto-approval for CSRs, which streamlined the integration process.
openshift/installer
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
Install an OpenShift 4.x cluster
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:340 reviews, 91 commits, 95 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Pawan primarily contributed to the agent installer by implementing core functionalities for the deployment of OpenShift clusters. The user focused on the integration of various systemd services, including the creation of new services and modifications to existing ones. They demonstrated expertise in handling environment variables and configuration files, specifically related to network configuration, and token management, crucial for authentication and secure communication.
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