Prateek Gogia is a senior software engineering manager with 10+ years building cloud-native infrastructure, developer platforms, and scalable services across AWS, Azure, and GCP. He blends hands-on engineering—Golang, Kubernetes, Docker—and DevOps expertise with leadership experience at Apple and AWS, driving teams that ship production-ready PaaS and autoscaling systems. His background in telecommunications and early work on virtual networking at Cisco inform a deep understanding of networking, distributed systems, and secure container networking. An active open-source contributor, he has contributed to high-profile projects like kops, Kubernetes test-infra, k3sup and kubicorn, improving CI/CD, scaling tests, and cloud provider integrations such as DigitalOcean and AWS. Prateek is known for turning complex scalability and deployment challenges into automated testable workflows and for pragmatic tooling that eases developer operations at scale. Based in Seattle, he pairs technical curiosity with a track record of operational ownership and on-call reliability.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electronics and Communications Engineering at Gurgaon Institute of Technology and Management
Master's degree Telecommunications Engineering, Master's degree Telecommunications Engineering at University of Maryland
Karpenter is a Kubernetes Node Autoscaler built for flexibility, performance, and simplicity.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:227 reviews, 31 commits, 51 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Prateek made several contributions to the `karpenter-provider-aws` repository, primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the project. Their work includes refactoring cloud provider code, integrating with AWS services like SSM, and adding logging for status changes. The user also implemented bug fixes for node group scaling and improved the test suite.
Simple, cloud native infrastructure for Kubernetes.
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Contributions:16 commits, 20 PRs, 6 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Prateek primarily contributed to infrastructure-related aspects within the Kubernetes cloud native project. Their work included adding a version command to display Kubicorn's version information, fixing file headers, and modifying the build process. Additionally, they added support for DigitalOcean firewalls by implementing the necessary cloud resource configurations.
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Prateek Gogia - Senior Software Engineering Manager at Apple