Sachin Lobo is a Cloud Native Product Engineer and Staff Product Engineer with a hands-on track record in building and operating web and cloud-native systems, data-driven services, and developer tooling. With roots in enterprise OSS and telecom, he has progressed from application support and automation roles to senior product engineering, bringing practical experience in DevOps, backend development, and data analytics. He is an active open-source contributor to notable projects like loft-sh/vcluster and devpod, where his work improved Kubernetes node management, PVC handling, security dependency fixes, and end-to-end developer experience features. Known for bridging product and infrastructure concerns, Sachin combines operational rigor with a developer-first mindset to ship reliable platforms that improve internal efficiency. Based in Navi Mumbai, he leverages diverse industry experience to translate complex requirements into pragmatic, secure solutions.
5 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Technology at Don Bosco Institute of Technology (D.B.I.T)
vCluster creates tenant clusters: fully isolated environments delivered as managed Kubernetes, or as the foundation for Slurm, Ray, Run:ai and inference clusters. Each gets its own API server, CRDs and RBAC, and runs on an existing cluster or standalone on bare metal. CNCF Certified Kubernetes.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:75 reviews, 20 commits, 104 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Sachin's commits primarily focused on enhancing the `vcluster` functionality related to Kubernetes node management. They implemented logic to allow the syncer to omit taints with enforced tolerations, ensuring proper pod scheduling behavior. Further contributions included adding support for the `dataSourceRef` field in PersistentVolumeClaim specs, refactoring code to use the `loft-sh/utils` library, and addressing versioning issues. They also addressed several security vulnerabilities by bumping dependencies.
Codespaces but open-source, client-only and unopinionated: Works with any IDE and lets you use any cloud, kubernetes or just localhost docker.
Role in this project:
Full-stack & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:12 reviews, 11 PRs, 35 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Sachin primarily focused on enhancing the project's functionality and robustness by adding features and improving testing. Their contributions included adding end-to-end tests, expanding the project's capabilities to check out repositories from commit hashes and pull request references. Additionally, they refactored the codebase to allow for SSH agent forwarding and handled prebuild repositories in the push command. They also built and rebuilt images based on the changes in the files within build context.
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