Chakradhar J
Chief Technology Officer at Zelar
Earth, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChakradhar J is a seasoned CTO with 13+ years of hands-on experience building cloud-native infrastructure and developer platforms, currently leading GenAI-native observability at Cokpit.ai and driving technical strategy at Zelar. He has a strong pedigree from Red Hat and Cloudera where he focused on OpenShift, Kubernetes, containers, and platform velocity, and has repeatedly moved from pre-sales and architecture roles to product engineering and executive leadership. His work spans infra automation, microservices, hybrid/edge deployments, and large-scale GRC/security architectures, with a pragmatic emphasis on reducing alert fatigue and improving debugging and cost visibility. An ex-CNCF Ambassador and frequent speaker at industry events, he remains actively coding—publishing OpenShift examples and deployment patterns on GitHub that reflect real-world operational playbooks. Based in Texas but globally experienced across Singapore, India, and the US, he combines startup agility with enterprise-grade delivery.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor of Technology Computer Science Engineering at BV Raju Institute of Technology (BVRIT)
Hindi, Telugu, English
Stackoverflow
503reputation
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13answers
9questions
Github Skills (21)
kubernetes10
scripting10
script10
openshift10
kubernetes-pods10
sh10
shell10
dockers9
docker9
istio9
yaml8
cd8
cicd8
tinycorelinux6
ping6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
debianmaster/openshift-examples
Aug 2016 - Oct 2020
Openshift Examples - This repo does not provide end to end example but rather act as a rough draft for my work. use with caution. Buzzme at @twitter
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:859 commits, 11 PRs, 886 pushes in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Chakradhar's primary contributions focused on configuring and deploying applications within an OpenShift/Kubernetes environment. They updated configurations for a MinIO S3 service, including endpoint and access key modifications. Further work involved creating and modifying deployment scripts, including adding Istio service mesh, configuring permissions, and integrating external applications. These actions demonstrate a focus on infrastructure setup and application deployment within a containerized environment.
openshiftkubernetes-clusterkubernetesswarm-clusteropenshift-origin
debianmaster/simpleCart
Jun 2013 - Jun 2020
Simple Shopping Portal built with Nodejs / MongoDB / Knockoutjs / Bootstrap. All good things at once place :)
Contributions:1 release, 28 commits, 25 pushes in 7 years 1 month
bootstrapknockoutknockoutjsmongodbnodejs
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