Ratnadeep Debnath is a Head of SRE with 16 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native, Kubernetes-first platforms for scale and reliability. He has led multi-cluster, SOC2-compliant architectures and dramatic traffic scaling efforts—e.g., ramping VoiceAI workloads to 0.8M calls in 12 hours with sub-second latency—while driving observability, FinOps, and security at companies like Zapier and BiglySales. A frequent contributor to CNCF and upstream projects, he added OpenShift BuildConfig support to the widely used kompose tool and worked on Mozilla’s Pontoon and Project Atomic, blending backend engineering with infrastructure automation. Ratnadeep pairs deep SRE craft (ArgoCD, KEDA, Prometheus, ProxySQL, Terraform) with developer experience improvements and a long-standing commitment to open source and reproducible ops. Based in Nabadwip, India, he brings a pragmatic, product-minded approach to reliability and mentoring across teams.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Technology Computer Science & Engineering at Dr. B. C. Roy Engineering College
B.Tech. Computer Science & Engineering, B.Tech. Computer Science & Engineering at West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata
Contributions:4 PRs, 49 comments, 1 issue in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ratnadeep's primary contribution focuses on integrating OpenShift build configurations within the Kompose project. They implemented support for generating OpenShift BuildConfig objects based on Docker Compose files. The changes include modifications to the Kompose transformer to create and deploy BuildConfigs, leveraging git for source code management. Further improvements include addressing bugs related to the build context path and git remote URL, ensuring compatibility and providing comprehensive documentation.
Atomic Run Tool for installing/running/managing container images.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 11 comments in 15 days
Contributions summary:Ratnadeep primarily contributed to the project's build and packaging process. Their work focused on improving the `setup.py` file, which included fixing linting issues, enabling "develop" mode, and correctly retrieving the package version. They also added the `install_requires` from the `requirements.txt` file, enabling the installation of Python dependencies. These changes indicate a focus on streamlining the development and deployment workflows of the project.
containersdocker-imageruncinstallingseccomp
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