Josh Gavant
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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RockstarJosh Gavant is an App Platform Solution Architect based in Chicago with 11 years of experience building cloud-native platforms and developer-facing infrastructure. He brings deep expertise in Kubernetes and Linux, combining hands-on platform engineering with architecture work at Red Hat. An active open-source contributor, he has contributed to Node.js internals—improving debugging and inspector features for a widely used runtime—and refactored authentication and deployment examples in Azure SDK samples. He also automates CI/CD and Kubernetes delivery (Helm, Kustomize, GitHub Actions) for demo apps like podtato-head, evidencing a focus on repeatable, testable delivery patterns. As Chair of CNCF TAG App Delivery, he blends technical leadership with a pragmatic drive to make “infrastructure for all” both reusable and consumable across teams.
12 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (41)
debugging10
kubernetes10
debug10
github-ci10
javascript10
node-js10
azure-sdk10
github-actions-workflows10
kustomize10
user-authentication10
authentication10
resource-management10
inspector10
azure-resource-manager10
go10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
podtato-head/podtato-head
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
Demo App for TAG App Delivery
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:28 reviews, 35 commits, 62 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Josh primarily focused on automating deployment processes and integrating various testing and deployment tools. They configured GitHub Actions for CI/CD, implemented Kubernetes configurations, and worked with tools like Helm and Kustomize for application deployment. They also set up and configured secrets for accessing container registries and improved the testing regime across multiple delivery methods.
demo-appreactreact-nativedelivery-apptypescript
Azure-Samples/azure-sdk-for-go-samples
Oct 2017 - Oct 2018
Examples of how to utilize Azure services from Go.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:59 commits, 22 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Josh's contributions primarily focused on refactoring the authentication process and other backend infrastructure, moving it into a common package. They also performed code cleanup, and updated the documentation to reflect changes. The user was also involved in the creation of Azure resources. Furthermore, the user worked on the deployment of test resources to support sample execution.
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