Ronak Nathani
Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRonak Nathani is a Principal Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale cloud and Kubernetes platforms, currently focused on providing a managed Kubernetes offering at LinkedIn. He partners with product and platform teams to migrate, optimize, and run offline, nearline, and online workloads across on-prem and Azure, and has led OS upgrade automation for fleets of tens of thousands of hosts. Ronak combines hands-on SRE work—capacity planning, on-call reliability, and performance optimization—with strategic planning and cross-team mentorship. Earlier roles at Insight Data Science saw him architect internal data platforms, automate AWS deployments, and teach data engineering to transitioning engineers. He co-hosts the Software Misadventures podcast and writes about Kubernetes and cloud engineering, reflecting a strong commitment to knowledge sharing beyond his day job. A detail that sets him apart is his track record of executing large-scale, low-risk OS and kernel upgrades (patching 20–40k hosts) without outages, demonstrating rare operational discipline at scale.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Electrical Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Electrical Engineering at Drexel UniversityBachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electronics and Communications Engineering at Gujarat Technological University
English, Hindi, Sindhi, Gujarati
Github Skills (94)
prometheus-exporter10
scheduling10
monitoring10
mesos10
continuous-delivery10
helm10
pipeline10
continuous-deployment10
kubernetes10
observability10
cd10
cicd10
agent10
prometheus10
go10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ronaknnathani/gitgraph
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:24 commits, 85 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
InsightDataScience/ansible-playbook
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:57 commits, 3 PRs, 11 pushes in 3 months
technologiesdevopsansibledockerkubernetes
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