Suraj Narwade
Platform Engineer
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSuraj Narwade is a Platform Engineer with a decade of experience building secure, scalable internal developer platforms across AWS and GCP, specialising in Kubernetes, GitOps, Backstage, and policy-driven governance. He blends hands-on open-source contributions—such as meaningful fixes and feature additions to kubernetes/kompose and docker/libcompose—with production platform work at NatWest Boxed and RVU, where he bootstrapped EKS/GKE foundations, Argo-driven workflows, and secrets/observability stacks. Known for improving developer experience through paved-road patterns, internal CLIs, and Backstage Tech Insights, he also runs incident rotations and streamlines PagerDuty workflows to raise reliability. Certified CKA/CKS and with roots at Red Hat contributing to odo and other cloud-native tooling, he uniquely pairs deep systems-level knowledge (Linux, AMI maintenance) with developer-centric platform design.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
HSC, HSC at Bhaskaracharya Jr. College, AurangabadSSC, SSC at Sarswati Bhuwan High School, AurangabadBachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering at Deogiri Institute of Technology and Management Studies
English, Hindi, Marathi, German
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Github Skills (24)
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
docker-compose10
dockers10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
golang10
cobra10
cli10
testing9
configuration-management9
devops9
yaml9
openshift9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/kompose
Jan 2017 - Apr 2020
Convert Compose to Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:59 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Suraj primarily contributed to the `kubernetes/kompose` project by adding support for features like `tmpfs` and `build-args` to the compose-to-Kubernetes conversion process. They also addressed multiple bugs related to various features like restart policies, and Dockerfile paths. Moreover, the user made significant changes to functional testing and removed unused functions to streamline the conversion process. Their work involved modifications to the underlying code, including changes across multiple files such as `kubernetes.go`, `compose.go`, and `openshift.go`.
containersgolangdockercomposedocker-compose
redhat-developer/odo
Jan 2018 - Jul 2019
odo - Developer-focused CLI for fast & iterative container-based application development on Podman and Kubernetes. Implementation of the open Devfile standard.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 104 commits, 141 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Suraj primarily focused on enhancing the odo CLI by implementing new features and improving existing ones. They added the basic structure of the project and the Cobra CLI, generating shell completion code for bash and zsh. Their contributions included adding new subcommands such as `version`, and `describe`, and refactoring code for consistency and better user experience, specifically renaming `ocdev` to `odo` throughout the codebase. They also addressed several issues by correcting output messages and implementing confirmation prompts for crucial actions.
golangodocontainersdeveloper-tooliterative
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