Hemanth Krishna
Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolHemanth Krishna is a software engineer with 8 years of experience focused on cloud-native systems, distributed backend engineering, and full‑stack tooling. He co-founded kofferX to automate workflows for designers, developers, and marketing teams, and has held engineering roles at Cisco while participating in Google Summer of Code '21 and as an LFX mentee for CNCF. An active open-source contributor, he has made notable contributions to LitmusChaos (authentication, JWT/Dex integrations and custom auth flows) and to Keptn’s CLI (autocompletion, event-labeling and UX improvements). Proficient in Go and Rust with hands-on DevOps and OIDC/JWT experience, he blends pragmatic product instincts with deep technical execution—and often appears online as “Benro” or “DarthBenro008.”
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science with Specialization in IoT, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science with Specialization in IoT at Vellore Institute of Technology
Github Skills (47)
api-doc10
kubernetes10
oauth210
back-end-development10
commandline-interface10
command-line-interface10
user-authentication10
authentication10
mongodb-database10
go10
api10
commandline10
command-line10
jwt10
back-end10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
litmuschaos/litmus
Mar 2021 - Oct 2021
Litmus helps SREs and developers practice chaos engineering in a Cloud-native way. Chaos experiments are published at the ChaosHub (https://hub.litmuschaos.io). Community notes is at https://hackmd.io/a4Zu_sH4TZGeih-xCimi3Q
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:31 reviews, 9 commits, 6 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Hemanth primarily focused on backend development for the Litmus Chaos project, specifically working on authentication server features within the litmus-portal. They implemented user management, authentication APIs, and integrated JWT authentication. The user also contributed to the dex-server, customizing the interface with Litmus brandings and configurations. Furthermore, they also configured CORS settings in the authentication server's main application file to resolve CORS issues and enhanced frontend functionalities, making use of `/login` route with JWT tokens from Dex authentication.
chaosnotessite-reliability-engineeringoperatorchaos-experiments
keptn/keptn
Feb 2021 - Jun 2021
Cloud-native application life-cycle orchestration. Keptn automates your SLO-driven multi-stage delivery and operations & remediation of your applications.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 8 commits, 8 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Hemanth primarily contributed to the Keptn CLI, focusing on feature additions and bug fixes. They implemented autocompletion functionality, improved upgrade messages, and enhanced authentication messages within the CLI. Additionally, the user added functionality for sending events and incorporated labels for event triggers. Their work primarily involved modifications to CLI commands and related functionalities.
multi-stageautomatescycledata-drivenorchestration
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