Soumya Dastidar
OSS Maintainer at Argo Project
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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Top SchoolSoumya Dastidar is a backend and DevOps-focused engineer with 7 years of experience building cloud-native, enterprise-grade solutions around Kubernetes, GitOps and chaos engineering. As an OSS maintainer for Argo CD and LitmusChaos, he contributes production-facing features—from CLI and helm templating fixes to workflow agents that surface experiment probes and logs—helping SREs ship and observe resilient systems. He’s built CI/CD and deployment pipelines (notably for the demo podtato-head stack) and automated image/version workflows while integrating monitoring such as Prometheus. Based in Kolkata, he combines hands-on backend code, DevOps automation and GraphQL/CLI work with a deep interest in decentralized apps and blockchain tooling from prior Tezos projects. A pragmatic mentor in the CNCF ecosystem, he’s as comfortable cleaning up dependencies and ACL support as he is designing chaos experiments that reveal real operational weakness.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology
Hindi, English, Bengali
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Github Skills (26)
continuous-deployment10
kubernetes10
docker10
bash10
dockers10
wpgraphql10
cicd10
argocd10
go10
prometheus10
helm10
wordpress-graphql10
kubernetes-pods10
graphql10
devops10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
litmuschaos/litmus
Jul 2020 - Apr 2022
Litmus helps SREs and developers practice chaos engineering in a Cloud-native way. Chaos experiments are published at the ChaosHub (https://hub.litmuschaos.io). Community notes is at https://hackmd.io/a4Zu_sH4TZGeih-xCimi3Q
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:575 reviews, 91 commits, 121 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Soumya primarily contributed to the back-end workflow agent, adding functionalities for processing and sending workflow events to a GraphQL server. Their work involved enhancing the agent to include experiment probe data and workflow logs. They also worked on the front-end local development setup by modifying configuration files and setting up websockets. Further contributions included updating build processes and dependencies, demonstrating a focus on DevOps practices.
chaosnotessite-reliability-engineeringoperatorchaos-experiments
argoproj/argo-cd
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Declarative Continuous Deployment for Kubernetes
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:190 reviews, 18 commits, 51 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Soumya primarily contributed to the command-line interface (CLI) functionality, specifically related to application diffing and syncing with helm templates. The user made changes to how API versions are passed to helm, ensuring compatibility and proper templating. They also fixed an issue with the core mode, ensuring that Argo CD does not unnecessarily connect to the server. Additionally, the user's work involved codebase cleanup, including removing unused dependencies and adding support for features like Redis ACL and plugin name support in CMPv2.
cdcontinuous-deploymentdokkupipelinehelm
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