Apoorva Kulkarni
Principal SA, Containers at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolApoorva Kulkarni is a Solutions Architect with 10 years of experience specializing in containers and cloud-native infrastructure, currently a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect focused on containers at AWS. They contribute to high-profile open-source projects like aws-quickstart/cdk-eks-blueprints and terraform-aws-eks-blueprints, where they implemented private-cluster support, CI/CD via GitHub Actions, SSM agent integration, and standardized add-on patterns to improve maintainability. Comfortable across infrastructure-as-code, EKS cluster configuration, and pipeline automation, they bridge full-stack and DevOps concerns to deliver production-ready platforms. Based in Southern California with roots in India, Apoorva blends pragmatic engineering with an emphasis on repeatable, testable deployments for complex distributed systems.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityBE, Information Technology, BE, Information Technology at University of Mumbai
English, Hindi
Github Skills (23)
amazon-eks10
kubernetes10
cloud-infrastructure10
terraform10
iks10
terraformer10
aws10
helm10
ci-cd10
infrastructure-as-code10
devops10
k8s10
k10
kubernetes-pod10
automationtesting9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
aws-ia/terraform-aws-eks-blueprints
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Configure and deploy complete EKS clusters.
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer
Cloud EngineerContributions:9 releases, 576 reviews, 129 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Apoorva primarily focuses on configuring and maintaining the infrastructure for the EKS clusters. They updated the CI/CD pipeline configuration, specifically by excluding certain examples from the automated tests. The user also contributed to a Ray blueprint by integrating it within the project. Their work includes modifying the configuration for deployments, and updating example and build scripts.
bottlerocketeks-addonsclustersingress-controllereks-fargate
aws-quickstart/cdk-eks-blueprints
May 2021 - Feb 2022
AWS Quick Start Team
Role in this project:Full-stack & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack & DevOps EngineerContributions:173 reviews, 165 commits, 17 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Apoorva primarily focused on refactoring and updating the code base by changing class names. Further, they were responsible for standardizing and refining the use of add-ons, making the project code more maintainable. They also implemented support for private clusters and integrated a CI/CD pipeline including building, testing and deployment of the blueprint using GitHub Actions. Additionally, they worked on adding support for SSM agent installation.
aws-lambdaquick-startaws
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