Vaishnav Gaikwad
Platform Engineer
Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolVaishnav Gaikwad is a Platform Engineer with 8 years' experience building and operating cloud-native, containerized infrastructure with a focus on AI infrastructure, Kubernetes, and SRE practices. Based in Abu Dhabi, he has progressed from associate SRE roles to platform engineering and consultancy, delivering reliability and automation across production systems. An active open-source contributor, he has contributed Helm charts and cleanup/refactor work to Rancher’s high-profile repositories, helping modernize Istio charts and remove deprecated components. Known for pragmatic dependency management and integration testing, he blends hands-on DevOps craftsmanship with platform-level thinking to simplify complex deployments.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Computer Science, Diploma Computer Science at Government Polytechnic PuneBachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering at BioReka University
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Github Skills (16)
istio10
kubernetes10
docker10
go10
helm10
dockers10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
orchestration9
orchestra9
rancher8
container8
git8
gatekeeper8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rancher/charts
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Github based Helm Chart Index Repository providing charts crafted for Rancher Manager
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:71 reviews, 126 commits, 74 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Vaishnav primarily contributed to the `rancher/charts` repository by adding and updating Helm charts for various Kiali server versions and other components such as Gatekeeper and Logging Operator. Their work involved modifying chart configurations, templates, and values files, including adjusting image versions, and updating deployment specifications within multiple istio versions. They also split istio charts into multiple versions and created/modified helm chart configuration.
rancher/rancher
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
Complete container management platform
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 18 commits, 15 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Vaishnav primarily contributed to the removal and cleanup of deprecated components and dependencies, such as "v1 istio," "pipeline," and "legacy cis-benchmark" references. They also performed dependency management tasks with "go mod tidy" and addressed code generation requirements. The commits indicate involvement in refactoring and system maintenance activities, along with adding integration tests.
containersorchestrationdockerrancherkubernetes
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