Raghavendra Tandon
Engineering Manager at NewStore
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolRaghavendra Tandon is an engineering leader with 12+ years of hands-on experience building cloud-native platforms and developer experience organizations, now serving as an Engineering Manager in Berlin. He has driven multi-million euro business impact and 25–40% improvements in DORA metrics by architecting internal developer platforms, Kubernetes infrastructures, and observability stacks for teams of 25–100+ engineers. A pragmatic technical coach, he has repeatedly scaled platform teams from zero, cut deployment complexity by nearly half, and enabled 4x faster feature delivery for products serving millions of daily users. He contributes to notable open-source tooling and improved CI/CD testability in projects like k8s-sidecar, reflecting a focus on robust, testable deployment workflows. With a background that spans telecom-grade systems to consumer platforms and an unusual early career in urban planning, he combines systems thinking with strong product and organizational instincts to align engineering practices with measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Methodist High School, KanpurBachelor's degree Urban and Regional Planning, Bachelor's degree Urban and Regional Planning at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology
English, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (10)
kubernetes10
bash10
docker10
dockers10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
python9
github-ci8
githubaction-workflow8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
kiwigrid/k8s-sidecar
May 2021 - May 2021
This is a docker container intended to run inside a kubernetes cluster to collect config maps with a specified label and store the included files in a local folder.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 27 commits, 5 PRs in 5 days
Contributions summary:Raghavendra focused on enhancing the testing and deployment workflow of the `k8s-sidecar` project. They implemented and refined the testing scenarios within the `.circleci/test-in-cluster.sh` script, including the integration of a dummy server and the verification of 5xx response handling. Additionally, the user addressed argument order issues and corrected import statements to improve code quality and maintainability, contributing to a more robust and testable deployment process within a Kubernetes environment.
docker-containerkubernetes-clusterkiwigridkubernetes
raghavtan/chat_server
Sep 2015 - May 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 8 months
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