Smit Thakkar is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, cloud-native infrastructure and developer platforms, currently shaping SRE foundations at Delivery Hero in Berlin. He previously drove core platform reliability and developer productivity at dubizzle and has founded multiple startups, blending hands-on engineering with product and architectural leadership. A certified Kubernetes Administrator and multi‑certified AWS professional, he contributes to open source (including UI work on the Keel Kubernetes operator) and speaks regularly at conferences. Outside tech he holds a private pilot license and explores Europe in a small aircraft, a hobby that reflects his appetite for precision and calculated risk.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Computer engineering, Computer Engineering, Diploma in Computer engineering, Computer Engineering at Goverment Polytechnic Gandhinagar
Kubernetes Operator to automate Helm, DaemonSet, StatefulSet & Deployment updates
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Smit primarily contributed to the user interface of the Keel project, as evidenced by their work on the Approvals view. Their commits focused on implementing bulk approval and rejection features, including adding buttons and integrating row selection functionality. Additionally, they addressed a linting error and a typo, and disabled checkboxes based on the approval status of items.
Contributions:18 commits, 26 pushes, 4 comments in 17 days
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Smit Thakkar - Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Zypher