Howdy! This is my personal portfolio hub

I am a Backend Developer
and a Site Reliabilty Engineer

About Me

The world is full of opportunities, the ones who not only just grab them but in the right time wins it. I am a passionate engineer who is looking to solve real world problems. My knowledge is widespread on the software domain, ranging from Development, Devops, Machine Learning and Hardware Programming.

  • Age 25
  • Residence USA
  • Address Dallas, Texas
  • e-mail abishekkumar92@gmail.com

What I Do

Public Conference

I have been well involved in attending interesting conferences such as KubeCon, GopherCon, etc. I have also been on stage to speak about Service Meshes on IstioCon and a couple of Docker conferences.

Esports

I am an active player of Dota2, my id is abishek50. Feel free to add me to your list and lets play party games together.

Sports

I am a Manchester UTD fanboy, I love Lionel Messi. I have played a ton of football/soccer matches throught my life, won several championships during my Intermediate and Undergraduation course study. I prefer to play CDM (Center defender Mid), good at defense and my role model is David Luiz. Anyone up for a game, hit me up!

Leadership

I have represented Leadership throughout my career. I have been the General Secretary of my college during my undergraduate studies, and also the Overall Coordinator of our Technical and cultural festivals during the same year. I have also been the captain of my college football team during my juniors.

Fun Facts

Conferences as Speaker

3

Years of Experience

3

Companies

3

Resume

Experience

10/2020 - 07/2021
Layer5

Principal Software Architect

Architect for Meshery as a project for Service Meshes.

Created Kubernetes custom operators and controllers for Meshery/Service Meshes.

Maintainer of Service Mesh Performance Spec.

Automation and Continuous integration around the hosted cloud solution for Meshery.

Webassembly Hub for Envoy based Webassembly Filters written in Rust.

Mentor of a number of Linux foundation candidates.

2013 - 2016
Bookmyshow

Site Reliability Engineer

Setting up and migration of applications to Kubernetes clusters for better scaling and stability.

Created Terraform modules to maintain the infrastructure components like Network, Firewall rules, Brokers, Kubernetes, VMs and Databases.

Developer/Manager of Communication Architecture for Bookmyshow. Developed and ported legacy architecture to a GRPC based new system.

Ansible playbook roles to automate application configuation.

Created Grpc/Protocol buffers based rule engine for internal systems.

Wrote SMPP server for protocol translation from http to smpp.

Summer Intern 2016
I2R Industries

Software Engineer

Machine learning based project that predicted weather data based on soil data from sensors.

Python and Arduino scripts to pull and process data and analyse from Thingspeak.

Websocket implementation for event based streaming of data (to improve energy efficiency).

Education

2021-Present
University of Texas at Dallas

Masters in Computer Science

2014-2018
Indian Institute of Technology, Indore

BTech in Electrical Engineering

Achievements & Awards

Present

Chair Member at CNCF WGs

  • Service Mesh Interface
  • Meshery
  • Service Mesh Performance

    • 2020

    Speaker at IstioCon

    Co-Instructor at Oreilly Istio Workshop

    2019

    Speaker at DockerBdy

    Coding Languages

    Golang

    98%

    C++

    70%

    Javascript

    70%

    Rust

    50%

    Perl

    40%

    HTML/CSS

    70%

    Python

    90%

    Frameworks

    • React JS
    • Terraform
    • Webassembly
    • gRPC
    • SMTP
    • Protocol Buffers
    • Ansible

    Technologies

    • Kubernetes
    • Docker
    • Service Meshes
    • Kafka/NATS
    • Prometheus/Grafana
    • MySQL/Postgres/MariaDB
    • MongoDB/Aerospike
    • Redis/Memcached
    • Argo/Pipelines
    • Elasticsearch
    • Newrelic/Jaeger/Zipkin
    • Cloudflare/Heroku

    Cloud Experience

    • Google Cloud
    • AWS
    • Digital Ocean
    • On-Premises VMware

    Projects

    Meshery Kubernetes Operator

    Meshery Kubernetes Operator

    Projects
    Meshery

    Meshery

    Projects
    Service Mesh Performance

    Service Mesh Performance

    Projects
    Jmeter helper CLI

    Jmeter helper CLI

    Projects
    GoBucky

    Go Bucky

    Projects
    Go Email

    Go Email

    Projects
    Notes Application

    Notes Application

    Projects
    Argo Sidecar

    Argo Sidecar

    Projects
    Chat Application

    Chat Application

    Projects
    Wireless DHCP starvation module

    Wireless DHCP starvation module

    Projects

    Blog

    Design
    Why I Switched to Sketch For UI Design
    05 Mar 2020

    Why I Switched to Sketch For UI Design

    UI
    Best Practices for Animated Progress Indicators
    23 Feb 2020

    Best Practices for Animated Progress Indicators

    Design
    Designing the Perfect Feature Comparison Table
    06 Feb 2020

    Designing the Perfect Feature Comparison Table

    UI
    An Overview of E-Commerce Platforms
    07 Jan 2020

    An Overview of E-Commerce Platforms

    Contact

    Dallas

    XXX-XXX-XXXX

    abishekkumar92@gmail.com

    Freelance Available

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