Raj Das
Staff Software Engineer at Harness
Guwahati, Assam, India
Summary
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Top SchoolRaj Das is a cloud-native engineer with 9 years of professional experience and 3+ years focused on AWS, GCP, serverless and DevOps practices, specializing in Kubernetes, Prometheus, Helm and chaos engineering with LitmusChaos. As a maintainer and staff software engineer on litmuschaos, he has driven CI/CD automation, semantic versioning, and implemented production-grade chaos experiments (including disk loss and CoreDNS disruptions) across AWS and GCP. He pairs hands-on back-end and Kubernetes job development with tooling improvements—ansible linting, build automation and Git-driven release workflows—to make chaos testing repeatable and reliable. Based in Karnataka, India, he is also a technical blogger on Medium and brings a pragmatic focus on automation and observability that helps SRE and developer teams practice resilience at scale.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science and Engineering at KiiT UniversityKendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
English, Hindi, Assamese
Github Skills (23)
chaos-engineering10
kubernetes10
github-ci10
docker10
scripting10
dockers10
cicd10
fault-injection10
script10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
sh10
shell10
githubaction-workflow10
semantic-versioning10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
litmuschaos/litmus
Oct 2019 - Oct 2022
Litmus helps SREs and developers practice chaos engineering in a Cloud-native way. Chaos experiments are published at the ChaosHub (https://hub.litmuschaos.io). Community notes is at https://hackmd.io/a4Zu_sH4TZGeih-xCimi3Q
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:14 releases, 769 reviews, 273 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Raj primarily contributed to implementing and improving chaos experiments within the LitmusChaos framework. Their work involved developing the experiment logic and Kubernetes jobs for various types of chaos, notably disk loss and CoreDNS pod deletion, with support for both GCP and AWS. The user's contributions also encompassed the creation of supporting YAML files and the refactoring of existing components to improve efficiency. In addition, the user worked on modifying and integrating the platform with supporting tools like pumba, and updating the underlying framework's build tooling (ansible lint) and configuration.
chaosnotessite-reliability-engineeringoperatorchaos-experiments
litmuschaos/chaos-charts
Sep 2019 - Apr 2020
Repository to hold chaos experiments resource YAML bundles
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 26 commits, 40 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Raj primarily focused on automating and improving the CI/CD pipeline for the project. Their contributions include modifying scripts for version management, integrating version validation, and configuring build processes. They also updated the push scripts to manage the deployment and committed changes to support the automated build and release process, showing a focus on automation and deployment tasks. The user implemented semantic versioning validation and incrementing, and configured git to automate code pushes.
chaossite-reliability-engineeringchaos-experimentsreliabilitykubernetes
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