Sunil Arora
Strategic Transformation Principal
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSunil Arora is a Strategic Transformation Principal at Amazon Web Services with a 25+ year cross-functional career spanning product engineering, security leadership, and go-to-market strategy. He blends hands-on backend and DevOps engineering—contributing to high-profile Kubernetes projects like kustomize, kubebuilder, controller-runtime and kubectl—with enterprise transformation work advising PE funds, startups, and nonprofits. Previously he led SaaS, security and business consulting practices at Cognizant and served as an Information Security Officer, giving him rare fluency in both developer tooling and enterprise security/compliance. Technically grounded in Go and cloud platforms (notably BigQuery and Google Cloud), he has driven release automation, critical bug fixes, and build/release infrastructure across major open-source repos. An IIT-Delhi and UCLA Anderson alumnus with advanced study in computer vision and CISO executive training, he pairs deep technical chops with strategic business acumen. Based in San Francisco, he’s known for translating complex technical debt and security requirements into automated, production-ready workflows that scale.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)MBA, Business Strategy and Technology, MBA, Business Strategy and Technology at UCLA Anderson School of ManagementChief Information Security Officer (CISO-Executive) Certificate Program, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO-Executive) Certificate Program at Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College of Information Systems and Public PolicyMaster of Science - MS, Engineering: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Master of Science - MS, Engineering: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition at University of Hawaii at Manoa
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Github Skills (32)
kubernetes10
debug10
github-ci10
controller-manager10
command-line-interface10
configuration-management10
bash10
kubectl10
cicd10
release-management10
automation10
go10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
command-line10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kptdev/kpt
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
Automate Kubernetes Configuration Editing
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:18 releases, 1337 reviews, 94 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Sunil primarily contributed to improving the default behavior of the `kpt` CLI, particularly regarding the `fn render` command. They modified the code to address default diff-type values and ensure the inclusion of functionConfigs and Kptfile by default during the rendering process. Additionally, the user worked on implementing a skeleton for the pipeline run functionality, enhancing error handling, and refining the relative path calculations within the rendering process. The user also updated the codebase to include more debugging information.
kubernetes-configurationshift-leftpolicy-as-codeconfig-as-datakrm
kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools
Jun 2018 - Oct 2019
Tools to use with the controller-runtime libraries
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 42 commits, 49 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Sunil's commits primarily involve modifying code related to BigQuery datasets within the `kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools` repository. The user added an example related to godocbot and made changes to vendor files. These changes demonstrate an understanding of Go, cloud.google.com/go/bigquery, and integration within the Kubernetes controller tools ecosystem. The user also made updates to related files to support RBAC, CRD and controller-gen tool.
runtimecontrollerk8s-sig-api-machinerycontroller-runtime
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