Laxmikant Pandhare
Staff Data Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolLaxmikant Pandhare is a Staff Software Engineer specializing in data platforms, currently based in San Francisco with seven years of experience building cloud-native, production-grade systems. He brings deep Kubernetes and operator expertise from multiple roles at Red Hat—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like kubebuilder and operator-sdk—where he worked on scaffolding, CI/CD, and operator plugins for technologies such as Quarkus. At Visa he applies that platform and DevOps background to scale data infrastructure, combining backend engineering with infrastructure-as-code and testing discipline. His early career in banking and fintech gave him strong production-support and SDLC rigor, while internships show a pattern of converting Java workloads to modern runtimes and automating operator workflows. Notably, he has hands-on experience debugging complex component configurations and adding end-to-end tests to ensure reliable cluster behavior.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Software Engineering at San José State UniversityBachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Engineering at Vishwakarma Institute Of Technology
English, Hindi, Marathi
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Github Skills (21)
kubernetes10
kustomize10
go10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
k8s-operator10
operator-sdk10
test-automation10
operator10
github-ci9
dockers9
cicd9
docker9
devops9
githubaction-workflow9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
operator-framework/operator-sdk
May 2021 - Jan 2023
SDK for building Kubernetes applications. Provides high level APIs, useful abstractions, and project scaffolding.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:267 reviews, 24 commits, 53 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Laxmikant primarily contributed to the operator-sdk project, focusing on features and improvements related to Kubernetes operators. Their work included adding plugins for new technologies like Quarkus, addressing path issues in the Ansible operator, and modifying versions for OLM. Additionally, the user made changes to testing infrastructure and CI/CD related configurations, and updated dependencies. They also helped to refactor codebase and handled the flag deprecation.
kubernetesoperatorsdk
kubernetes-sigs/kubebuilder
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
Kubebuilder - SDK for building Kubernetes APIs using CRDs
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:30 reviews, 5 commits, 13 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Laxmikant primarily contributed to the Kubebuilder project by modifying configuration files and test files related to the scaffolding process. They addressed issues with component configuration, adjusted kustomize settings, and added end-to-end tests. Their work also involved making updates and modifications to the configuration files across different plugin versions. Furthermore, they debugged and corrected bugs in components configurations.
kubebuilderkubernetesk8s-sig-api-machinery
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