Production Engineer β’ Open Source Contributor β’ Cloud Native β’ Kubernetes β’ Platform Engineering
π Mumbai, India Β |Β βοΈ Kubernetes β’ Tekton β’ ML-Flow β’ Go β’ Java β’ Spring Boot
Actively contributing to Kubernetes, Tekton Pipelines, TensorFlow, KServe, HolmesGPT, and other cloud-native open-source projects.
I'm passionate about building scalable backend systems, distributed platforms, Kubernetes controllers, developer tooling, observability, and AI-powered applications.
- API Server webhook endpoint readiness improvements.
- API Machinery validation enhancements.
- Production-grade fixes around admission and endpoint selection.
- Working with SIG API Machinery maintainers on controller/runtime internals.
β Introduced TaskRun Pending State, enabling pending execution behavior similar to PipelineRuns.
β Optimized controller performance by stripping ManagedFields before informer cache insertion, reducing memory usage and DeepCopy overhead.
π§ Working on:
- ResolutionRequest reconciliation improvements
- OpenTelemetry trace propagation
- Kubernetes Event tracing
- Controller performance enhancements
- Fixed
tf.linalg.logdet()to correctly return -β for singular matrices instead of NaN. - Added comprehensive regression tests.
- Worked directly with TensorFlow maintainers through review iterations.
- Documentation improvements.
- HTTPRoute specification clarifications.
- Networking and serving enhancements.
- Added W3C Trace Context extraction support for FastAPI requests.
- Fixed project configuration loading for Git/API-based projects.
| Project | Description |
|---|---|
| SarvamDesk | Enterprise-grade IT Service Management platform with ticketing, assets, SLA automation and microservices architecture. |
| PromptLens | OpenTelemetry-powered observability platform for AI agents with traces, sessions, prompt analytics and cost monitoring. |
| Granthiq | NotebookLM-inspired AI knowledge platform featuring Hybrid RAG, MCP integration, reranking and research agents. |
| Nirmaan | Terminal-based coding agent supporting OpenAI, Groq, Ollama and vLLM with event tracing and benchmarking. |
| DropTag | Secure file & text sharing platform with temporary rooms and cloud storage. |
- Go
- Java
- Python
- TypeScript
- Spring Boot
- FastAPI
- Node.js
- Express
- Kubernetes
- Tekton Pipelines
- Docker
- OpenTelemetry
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Qdrant
- MongoDB
- GitHub Actions , ArgoCD
- CI/CD
- Linux
- Git
- Terraform
- Google Cloud Platform
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Multiple merged contributions to Tekton Pipelines
- Active contributor to Kubernetes
- Contributor to TensorFlow
- Contributor to Spring AI
- Contributor to Falco
- Contributor to KServe
- Contributor to HolmesGPT
- Contributor to MLRun
- Kubernetes API Machinery
- Controller Runtime
- Distributed Systems
- Platform Engineering
- OpenTelemetry
- Service Mesh
- Cloud Native Architecture
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sahil-bhardwaj-513326208/
- π§ Email: [email protected]
β If you like my work, feel free to connect or collaborate on Open Source projects!
