Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer with deep expertise in cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes ecosystems, and infrastructure automation. Passionate about building scalable, resilient systems and contributing to open source communities.
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Kubestronaut - One of the elite professionals who have achieved all five Kubernetes certifications from the CNCF:
- KCNA (Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate)
- CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator)
- CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Application Developer)
- CKS (Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist)
- KCSA (Kubernetes and Cloud Native Security Associate)
Actively contributing to CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) and ASWF (Academy Software Foundation) projects:
| Project | Description | Contributions |
|---|---|---|
| Dragonfly | P2P-based file distribution and image acceleration | client#1665 - Add Hugging Face backend support with hf:// protocol, d7y.io#386 - Add hf:// protocol documentation, helm-charts#455 - Add injector support to helm chart |
| Kubernetes | Production-Grade Container Orchestration | #53891 - Document deployment.kubernetes.io/* annotations, #53892 - Add kubectl apply view-last-applied documentation |
| TiKV | Distributed transactional key-value database | #19225 - Add AGENTS.md for AI agent guidance |
| KEDA | Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling | #1658 - Removing metricName from the kedadocs |
| Metal3 | Bare metal host provisioning for Kubernetes | #624 - Fix redirect links in tryit.md |
| OpenTelemetry | Observability framework | #8632 - Add .NET troubleshooting page |
| kpt | Kubernetes-native packaging and resource management | #4278 - Fix kpt fn doc command for KRM functions expecting input |
| Project | Description | Contributions |
|---|---|---|
| OpenColorIO | Color management library | #2229 - Add release signing workflow, #2230 - Add Dependabot configuration, #2243 - Add Vulkan unit test framework |
| OpenCue | Cloud rendering management system | #2134 - Add scheduled subscription recalculation task |
| OpenImageIO | Image processing library | #4976 - Fix IBA::compare_Yee() channel access |
| RAWtoACES | RAW to ACES image conversion | #222 - Add build developer documentation |
| xSTUDIO | Playback and review application | #186 - Fix broken build guide links |
Total: 19 PRs across 14 projects in CNCF and ASWF foundations!
| Project | Description | Contributions |
|---|---|---|
| Golden Kubestronaut Learning | Kubernetes certification study guides and resources | #23 - Dark mode persistence, #24 - PDF generation workflow |
I'm actively developing these open source projects and welcome contributors of all skill levels!
๐ค KubeAI Autoscaler
Kubernetes-native AI inference workload autoscaler
Scale AI/ML workloads based on:
- ๐ฎ GPU Utilization - NVIDIA DCGM metrics
- โฑ๏ธ Latency SLA - P99/P95 response times
- ๐ Queue Depth - Pending request count
Tech Stack: Go, Kubernetes, Prometheus, controller-runtime
Good First Issues: Controller enhancements, documentation, Helm chart improvements
๐ Awesome LLMOps
The Ultimate Curated List of LLMOps Tools & Resources
Comprehensive collection covering:
- ๐ง LLM Models - Open source & commercial
- ๐ Inference Engines - vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, Triton
- ๐ง Orchestration - LangChain, LlamaIndex, agents
- ๐ Observability - Tracing, monitoring, evaluation
Good First Issues: Add new tools, fix broken links, improve categorization
๐ Ingress2Gateway
Convert Kubernetes Ingress to Gateway API
Features:
- ๐ Web UI - Interactive conversion with diff view
- ๐ป CLI Tool - Full-featured command line
- ๐ GitHub Action - CI/CD integration
- โธ๏ธ kubectl Plugin - Native kubectl support
Supports: Nginx, Traefik, Istio, AWS ALB, GKE, Kong, Contour
Tech Stack: Python, FastAPI, React, Kubernetes
Good First Issues: Add annotation support, improve validation, new provider presets
- Pick a project that interests you
- Check Issues labeled
good first issueorhelp wanted - Fork & Clone the repository
- Submit a PR - I review all PRs promptly!
All contributions welcome:
- ๐ป Code contributions
- ๐ Documentation improvements
- ๐ Bug reports
- ๐ก Feature suggestions
- โญ Star the repos!
Questions? Open a Discussion or reach out on LinkedIn!
- AWS - Primary cloud platform for production workloads
- Azure - Previous experience with enterprise deployments
- Kubernetes - Production cluster management, multi-tenancy, and workload orchestration
- ArgoCD - GitOps-driven continuous delivery and application lifecycle management
- Docker - Container image building and runtime management
- Crossplane - Kubernetes-native infrastructure provisioning and composition
- Prometheus & Grafana - Metrics collection, alerting, and dashboard visualization
- Splunk - Enterprise log aggregation and security analytics
- Datadog - Full-stack monitoring and application performance management
- OpenTelemetry - Vendor-neutral distributed tracing and telemetry collection
- Kyverno - Kubernetes-native policy engine for security and compliance
- OPA (Open Policy Agent) - Unified policy enforcement across the stack
- GitHub Actions - Cloud-native workflow automation and CI/CD pipelines
- Jenkins - Enterprise CI/CD automation and pipeline orchestration
- Flux - GitOps toolkit for Kubernetes continuous delivery
- UrbanCode Deploy - Enterprise application release automation
- PrestoDB & Trino - High-performance distributed SQL query engines for analytics
- Apache Superset - Modern data exploration and business intelligence platform
- Alluxio - Unified data orchestration for compute and storage
- Jupyter Notebooks - Interactive data science and machine learning workflows
Deeply interested in the convergence of AI/ML and Kubernetes - enabling organizations to run machine learning workloads at scale on cloud-native infrastructure. Exploring MLOps practices, GPU scheduling, and AI platform engineering.
Sharing insights on DevOps best practices, Kubernetes deep-dives, and cloud-native architecture:
๐ pavanmadduri.wordpress.com
Always open to connecting with fellow engineers and enthusiasts in the cloud-native and AI/ML space!
- ๐ฌ Collaborate - Open an issue or discussion on any of my repositories
- ๐ค Partner - Interested in contributing to CNCF or ASWF projects together
- ๐ Network - Happy to exchange ideas and share experiences
Let's build something great together! ๐