Rakshit Gondwal
Software Engineer at Chainguard
Chandigarh, India
Summary
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Top SchoolRakshit Gondwal is a software engineer with ~4 years of hands-on experience in cloud-native and DevOps tooling, currently on the engineering team at Chainguard. He has a strong open-source footprint as a Keptn maintainer and former CNCF/GSoC contributor, where he enhanced metrics and policy controls for cloud-native tooling. Rakshit pairs Kubernetes and backend expertise—demonstrated by substantive contributions to k8sgpt’s resource analyzers and webhook checks—with practical AWS and Terraform experience that delivered a 60% cost reduction in a production environment. He moves comfortably between building features and improving developer experience, from CI/CD automation to admission-controller extensions. Based in Chandigarh with a BTech background, he combines rapid learning with community-first collaboration, often contributing code that tightens security and observability in production clusters.
4 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Chitkara International SchoolBachelor of Technology - BTech, Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Civil Engineering at Punjab Engineering College
Github Skills (9)
kubernetes10
go10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
testing9
ai9
automations8
automation8
helm6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
k8sgpt-ai/k8sgpt
Mar 2023 - Sep 2023
Giving Kubernetes Superpowers to everyone
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 7 PRs, 34 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Rakshit primarily contributed to the project by implementing new features and improving existing ones related to Kubernetes resource analysis. They added an alias filter, improved the HPA analyzer by checking ScaleTargetRef resources, and introduced a validating/mutating webhook analyzer. Furthermore, they addressed a typo and removed a provider from the default configuration on deletion. Their work demonstrates a strong understanding of Kubernetes internals and the project's core functionality.
aidevopskubernetesllamaopenai
rakshitgondwal/lifecycle-toolkit
Jan 2023 - Mar 2024
Toolkit for cloud-native application lifecycle management
Contributions:3 PRs, 268 pushes, 28 branches in 1 year 2 months
lifecycleapplication-lifecycle-managementcloudkuberneteslifecycle-management
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