Waleed Malik
Senior Software Engineer at Kubermatic
Pakistan
Summary
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Top SchoolWaleed Malik is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience specializing in Kubernetes, cloud-native platforms, and DevOps. He drives backend and infrastructure work at Kubermatic and has led development of open-source Kubernetes operators and controllers at Stakater, contributing to projects like KubeOne, machine-controller, IngressMonitorController, and Reloader. His strengths include refactoring legacy features, hardening TLS and RBAC configurations, and integrating cloud providers (GCP, OpenStack, Equinix Metal) into orchestration tooling. Waleed combines platform-level engineering with CI/CD and build-system improvements, and he’s comfortable across full-stack and operator development and production cluster management. Based in Pakistan, he often focuses on compatibility and deprecation cycles (e.g., Pod Presets/PodSecurityPolicies), reflecting a pragmatic approach to long-lived, secure cloud infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Pre-Engineering, High School, Pre-Engineering at Fazaia Degree College, MRF KamraBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
English, Urdu
Github Skills (23)
kubernetes10
docker10
controller10
dockers10
gcp10
go10
openstack10
ci-cd-pipeline10
kubernetes-pods10
cluster-api10
devops10
operator-sdk10
k8s10
secrets9
cicd9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
kubermatic/kubermatic
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform - the Central Kubernetes Management Platform For Any Infrastructure
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1094 reviews, 112 commits, 315 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Waleed primarily contributed to the infrastructure and cloud provider integrations for the Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform, focusing on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and OpenStack. They implemented features to manage firewall rules for node ports on GCP. Additionally, they worked on opening nodeports, and creating the necessary RBAC rules, indicating proficiency in cluster configuration. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to strict TLS cipher suites for kubelet and the kube-apiserver, enhancing the platform's security posture.
kubernetescluster-apikubermatic-kubernetes-platform
kubermatic/machine-controller
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:15 releases, 368 reviews, 67 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Waleed's commits primarily focus on improving and maintaining the machine-controller's infrastructure and build processes. They updated the TLS Cipher Suites configuration for kubelet, along with related fixtures and configurations. They made several changes to the CI/CD pipeline by updating kubectl version and cluster configurations, templating health checks, and fixing linting errors and removing deprecated commands. They also added support for Equinix Metal cloud provider and updated the documentation.
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