DHARMIT SHAH

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SUMMARY

Software Engineer working in open source domain. Experienced in engineering (9 years), technical support (2.5

years), and user-facing roles (4 years); now focusing on getting into the depths of Go & Kubernetes. I have been

working remotely since October 2015.

SKILLS

Primary Go, Linux, Kubernetes, Virtualization

Secondary Bazel, Python, Ansible, Terraform, LaTeX

I AM PROUD OF

• End-to-end work on hook sidecar ConﬁgMap feature on an entirely new code base

• odo dev, concurrency (1, 2, 3) to improve odo logs performance, lead documentation eﬀort. Created 12 videos

for enablement of Technical Support, opened 18 bugs in the process, and received an award for the same

• Presented CentOS Container Pipeline Service in conferences and architected its v2 based on OpenShift 3

• Mentored students who are now engineers at Red Hat, SUSE, Oracle, Intel, etc. References available on request.

EXPERIENCE

Senior Software Engineer, SUSE Apr 2024- Present

• Part of Software Solution Engineering team

• Troubleshoot and debug issues coming from customers and/or technical support

• Provide hot ﬁxes to address issues

• Developed features (1) for Observability & Backup team

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat Oct 2015 - Mar 2024

• Developer on the KubeVirt team Dec 2022 - Present

– End-to-end implementation and delivery for ConﬁgMap support in hook sidecar

– Use Operator framework to build and manage Kubernetes Operators

– Stack: Go, controller runtime, operator-sdk

• Developer and Team Lead for the odo project Apr 2019 - Dec 2022

– Go CLI to deploy apps on k8s; extensively used concurrency primitives.

– Team Lead between Nov 2020 - Dec 2021

– Lead the documentation eﬀort: (website)

– Lead the eﬀort to educate support team about the tooling.

– Stack: Go, spf13/cobra (CLI framework); goroutines, mutexes, sync/atomic (concurrency)

• Developer and Architect for CentOS Container Pipeline project Mar 2016 - Apr 2019

– Service written in Python and deployed on OpenShift using Ansible

– Lead the architectural eﬀort to move to OpenShift

– Stack: Python; Ansible & OpenShift (deployment); Jenkins Pipelines (build orchestration), beanstalkd

(message queue); Prometheus & Grafana (monitoring)

DevOps Engineer, Ishi Systems Jul 2015 - Oct 2015

• Evaluate Apache Mesos on AWS using Terraform for application deployment

• Stack: Apache Mesos, Marathon, Chronos, AWS, Terraform, Ansible

Software Engineer, Aubergine Dec 2014 - Jul 2015

• Backend developer for the Cubii mobile app

• Design, develop and deploy the APIs

• Stack: Django Rest Framework, Celery, AWS

Associate Software Engineer, Red Hat Jun 2014 - Nov 2014

• Worked on the ISV Certiﬁcation team, and developed Dockerﬁle linter in Python

Associate Technical Support Engineer, Red Hat Apr 2012- Jun 2014

• Technical support cases for Linux, Virtualization and OpenStack platforms

• Front-line engineer, worked on call support

Linux Administrator, Global SMS Networks Dec 2011 - Mar 2012

• Setup ﬁrewall rules using iptables; admin for Web, FTP, Mail servers.

IT Engineer, CMC Ltd. Aug 2010 - Aug 2011

• Setup Oracle 10 rg2 on RHEL5.5; requirement gathering from the client.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology 2006 - 2010

Sardar Patel University, Anand

AWARDS & CERTIFICATIONS

Red Hat Developer Impact Award Dec 2019

Awarded for using the tool from a user’s perspective, creating learning material for Technical Support team, and

opening numerous bugs in the process

Certiﬁed Kubernetes Administrator Nov 2020 - Nov 2023

Certiﬁed Kubernetes Application Developer Nov 2020 - Nov 2023

CONFERENCE TALKS

• DevConf.CZ 2018 at Brno, Czech Republic

• CentOS Dojo 2019 at Brussels, Belgium

• DevConf.CZ 2019 at Brno, Czech Republic

COMMUNITY & MENTORING

• Lead of Kubernetes, Go and Docker meetup chapters in Ahmedabad

• Mentored undergraduate students in Linux & Python (references available on request)