Satbir Chahal
Software Engineer at Nextdoor
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSatbir Chahal is a software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling from startups to public companies in the San Jose area. He has driven end-to-end production builds—networking, cluster provisioning, CI/CD, observability and artifact repositories—while introducing IaC and GitOps practices to reduce risk and speed delivery. As a principal engineer and founding technologist he has built custom orchestration and infrastructure tools in Go and Python, brought up geo-replicated messaging (Apache Pulsar) and migrated critical platform services like GitLab. His background spans virtualization, cloud migrations (AWS/Azure), and bare-metal provisioning, giving him a pragmatic view of both low-level systems and modern container platforms. Colleagues rely on him to stabilize complex pipelines and cut operational costs through automation and better tooling.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
San José State University
Github Skills (105)
api-management10
grafana10
security10
consul10
istio10
microservices10
monitoring10
service-mesh10
fault-injection10
proxies10
golang10
kubernetes10
nomad10
prometheus10
circuit-breaker10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
schahal/loki
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
Like Prometheus, but for logs.
Contributions:26 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
schahal/sample
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
Test GitHub Pages
Contributions:12 releases, 5 PRs, 69 pushes in 1 month
testing
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