Pratik Shah
Staff Engineer at Improving
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolPratik Shah is a Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, SaaS platforms and production-grade infrastructure from the ground up. He specializes in Kubernetes and Go for scalable backend systems, and leverages Python and OOP practices to keep code maintainable across complex stacks. Hands-on with Docker, Ansible, OpenStack and major databases (MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL), he also designs robust CI/CD pipelines using TeamCity, CircleCI and GitHub Actions. Pratik contributes to notable open-source work on Kyverno, adding image verification, signature algorithm support, and secrets/KMS integration—highlighting an emphasis on supply-chain security. Based in Pune, he blends deep DevOps instincts with backend engineering rigor and a practical focus on automating reliable delivery. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who surfaces subtle security and validation improvements before they become incidents.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Savitribai Phule Pune University
Marathi, Hindi, English
Github Skills (8)
kubernetes10
go10
group-policy10
policies10
kubernetes-pods10
security10
yaml9
cicd7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kyverno/kyverno
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
Cloud Native Policy Management
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:47 reviews, 8 commits, 8 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Pratik primarily contributed to the Kyverno project by enhancing image verification functionality. They implemented support for specifying signature algorithms within the `verifyImages` rules, demonstrating a focus on security and image validation. Their contributions also included refactoring code to support secrets and KMS for image verification and modifying code related to image verification, which suggests involvement in backend logic and potentially CI/CD pipeline enhancements. They also worked on showing rule count and type in the output and fixing an issue related to image verification being executed before the mutate operation.
policycosignpolicy-managementk8skubernetes
shahpratikr/Python-Programs
Oct 2015 - Jun 2023
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 8 months
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