Rajas Kakodkar
Staff Software Engineer at Broadcom
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolRajas Kakodkar is a Staff Software Engineer at Broadcom with eight years of hands-on experience building and automating cloud-native infrastructure and releases. As Tech Lead of CNCF's TAG Runtime and a maintainer in Kubernetes SIG Network, he drives architecture work on core components like Kube-proxy Next Gen and helps form new working groups around WASM and special-purpose OSes. He led release automation and validation for VMware Tanzu Framework, ensuring reliable artifact pipelines and cross-plugin compatibility, and has deep expertise in CI/CD systems such as Prow, Jenkins and GitHub Actions. A recognized community leader—recipient of the 2023 CNCF Chop Wood Carry Water Award—he also co-chairs Cloud Native AI Day Paris 2024, reflecting his growing focus on the intersection of AI and cloud-native runtimes. Based in Bengaluru, he blends pragmatic engineering with open-source stewardship, often surfacing non-obvious platform-level fixes that improve test coverage and cross-architecture support.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science at Padre Conceicao College of Engineering, VernaVidya Vikas Academy
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Github Skills (15)
application-framework10
batch10
automation10
github-ci10
bash10
automations10
script10
githubaction-workflow10
batchfile10
cicd10
dockers9
kubernetes-pods9
testing9
docker9
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
vmware-tanzu/tanzu-framework
Sep 2021 - Feb 2022
Tanzu Framework provides a set of building blocks to build atop of the Tanzu platform and leverages Carvel packaging and plugins to provide users with a much stronger, more integrated experience than the loose coupling and stand-alone commands of the previous generation of tools.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer / Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer / Automation EngineerContributions:35 reviews, 17 commits, 22 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Rajas primarily focused on automating and validating the Tanzu Framework release artifacts. Their contributions involved creating and modifying install scripts (bash and batch) for the tanzu CLI, testing release artifacts, and integrating the install scripts with the test-release-artifacts scripts. They also worked on the validation of release artifacts by integrating various tanzu plugins and verifying their versions. The user's work ensured the quality and functionality of the Tanzu Framework's release process.
loose-coupling
rajaskakodkar/dotfiles
Aug 2020 - Jan 2026
Contributions:6 pushes in 5 years 5 months
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