Senior Technical Support Engineer & Kubernetes Infrastructure SME

🏆 CKA & CKAD Certified - Licenses & Certs

I specialise in designing, securing, and maintaining enterprise-grade, high-availability Kubernetes cluster environments. I design and secure production-ready, multi-tenant clusters, managing advanced container networking topologies and security compliance policies. I bridge the gap between complex cloud-native architectures and real-world deployment reliability using Go, GitOps, K8s, Networking, Linux, and GCP.

Pre & Post-Sales Engineering: Co-owning high-stakes Proof of Concepts (POCs), driving enterprise customers, and managing architectural adoptions.

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                                   MY TECH STACK                                      │
├───────────────────┬───────────────────┬───────────────────┬──────────────────────────┤
│ INFRASTRUCTURE    │ GITOPS & IAC      │ CORE NETWORKING   │ DEVELOPMENT & DATA       │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
│ • Kubernetes      │ • ArgoCD          │ • K8s Networking  │ • Go (Golang)            │
│   (CKA, CKAD)     │ • Git             │ • CNI             │ • RAG Pipelines          │
│ • Docker          │ • GitOps          │ • Gateway         │ • Qdrant Vector DB       │
│ • Container-d     │ • Terraform / HCL │ • Net Namespaces  │ • vLLM                   │
│ • CRI-o           │                   │ • OSI (DNS, TCP,  │ • LLM-d                  │
│ • Helm            │                   │   UDP, TLS, HTTP, │ • Python                 │
│ • GCP             │                   │   gRPC)           │                          │
│ • AWS / EKS       │                   │ • NAT / IPTables  │                          │
│ • Azure / AKS     │                   │ • IPVS            │                          │
│ • OpenShift       │                   │ • eBPF            │                          │
│ • DRA             │                   │                   │                          │
└───────────────────┴───────────────────┴───────────────────┴──────────────────────────┘

• Active Ecosystem Contribution: Contributor to BlazeMeter agent/server core Kubernetes components code. Improved overall runtime security, added advanced cluster configuration support, and patched critical system issues. Helped introduce features to support custom solutions for diverse customer deployment needs (Security, Compliance and other standard admission policies).
• Creator and Maintainer of BlazeMeter Helm charts that streamline the BlazeMeter server/agent deployments
• Creator and Maintainer of Crane-hook, which is an automated test package in Go to guarantee cluster health and prerequisite validation.
• Upstream Open Source: Contributor to official Helm & Kubernetes documentation; highly engaged across community Slack workspaces and official forums.
• Commit Velocity: 140+ targeted structural commits executed within advanced application branches, ensuring rapid validation cycles.

• Kubernetes Slack: Let's sync up on the official community workspace.
• Cloud Forums: @immnan on discuss.kubernetes.io
• LinkedIn: /in/mananpatel-sudo