Satbir Chahal
Software Engineer at Nextdoor
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSatbir Chahal is a software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling from startups to public companies in the San Jose area. He has driven end-to-end production builds—networking, cluster provisioning, CI/CD, observability and artifact repositories—while introducing IaC and GitOps practices to reduce risk and speed delivery. As a principal engineer and founding technologist he has built custom orchestration and infrastructure tools in Go and Python, brought up geo-replicated messaging (Apache Pulsar) and migrated critical platform services like GitLab. His background spans virtualization, cloud migrations (AWS/Azure), and bare-metal provisioning, giving him a pragmatic view of both low-level systems and modern container platforms. Colleagues rely on him to stabilize complex pipelines and cut operational costs through automation and better tooling.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
San José State University
Github Skills (118)
api-management10
grafana10
security10
consul10
istio10
microservices10
argoproj10
service-mesh10
fault-injection10
network-interface10
proxies10
golang10
kubernetes10
nomad10
prometheus10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
schahal/loki
Jul 2024 - Oct 2025
Like Prometheus, but for logs.
Contributions:29 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
schahal/sample
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
Test GitHub Pages
Contributions:12 releases, 5 PRs, 69 pushes in 1 month
testing
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