Prashant Balachandran
Staff Engineer 2 at VMware
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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SeniorPrashant Balachandran is a Staff Engineer with nine years of experience leading teams to design and deliver cloud-native, microservices-based enterprise applications and data pipelines. He combines deep hands‑on expertise in Java, Python and Go with practical experience in Kafka, Spark, Prometheus and AWS Serverless to move systems from monoliths to real‑time, event-driven architectures. At VMware he leads engineering for AWS event pipelines and deployment automation for virtualization on AWS, and previously at Red Hat he worked closely with the OpenShift monitoring stack and Prometheus telemetry. He has driven large decomposition and streaming projects at Intuit—transforming batch workloads to real time and building cross‑system integrations—and contributed DevOps changes to the widely used OpenShift cluster-monitoring-operator. Known for pragmatic architecture, strong stakeholder communication and improving observability and error reporting, he blends systems thinking with hands‑on delivery.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (13)
thanos10
kubernetes10
alarmmanager10
docker10
prometheus10
openshift10
dockers10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
notificationmanager10
yaml10
jsonnet9
go8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/cluster-monitoring-operator
May 2021 - Feb 2022
Manage the OpenShift monitoring stack
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:69 reviews, 32 commits, 33 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Prashant primarily focused on modifying and adding configurations related to various components within the OpenShift monitoring stack. Their contributions included adding, modifying, and removing role bindings and secrets, particularly for the kube-rbac-proxy, and telemeter client. They also made changes to deployment configurations and tests, along with modifications to the Prometheus adapter configuration to utilize Thanos Querier for queries. The user also made improvements to error reporting and logging.
monitoringkubernetesgrafanaopenshift
prashbnair/cluster-monitoring-operator
May 2021 - Mar 2022
Manage the OpenShift monitoring stack
Contributions:89 pushes, 58 branches, 11 comments in 10 months
monitoringkubernetesgrafanaopenshift
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