Naman Lakhwani
Software Engineer at ALLEN Digital
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolNaman Lakhwani is a software engineer based in Bengaluru with six years of experience building cloud-native systems in Go and improving developer workflows. He has shipped production features and automation across companies and upstream CNCF projects—contributing to Kubernetes e2e tooling, adding keyless image verification and digest mutation to Kyverno, and enabling per-endpoint mTLS plus automated cert rotation in Thanos. His work targets reliability and performance: a referral service that raised user acquisition 20%, caching that cut notification latency 50%, a container runtime optimization and release-job automation that saved tens of hours per cycle, and a 90% reduction in image pull time via streaming. A former GSoC and LFX mentee, he blends backend and DevOps engineering with CI/CD, testing and supply-chain security focus, and prefers reading and family time when away from the keyboard.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Integrated post graduation (B.Tech. + M.Tech.), Information Technology, Integrated post graduation (B.Tech. + M.Tech.), Information Technology at ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and ManagementCBSE - 12th, 94.2 %, CBSE - 12th, 94.2 % at Lord Krishna Public School, Datia (M.P.)ICSE - 10th, 94.33 %, ICSE - 10th, 94.33 % at Holy Cross Ashram School , Datia (M.P.)
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Github Skills (33)
monitoring10
kubernetes10
group-policy10
scripting10
high-availability10
testing10
policies10
cosign10
script10
go10
prometheus10
sh10
shell10
devops10
kubernetes-pod10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
thanos-io/thanos
Dec 2020 - Oct 2021
Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:50 reviews, 42 commits, 15 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Naman contributed to back-end functionality by adding support for matchers in the `tsdb` store and the sidecar component. They fixed UI styling issues and addressed react UI bugs within the project. The user also implemented unit tests, addressed requested changes, and contributed to automatic certificate rotation without restarting the server.
promqlobservabilityprometheusstoragegoogle-cloud-storage
kyverno/kyverno
Sep 2021 - Apr 2022
Cloud Native Policy Management
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:56 reviews, 35 commits, 36 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Naman primarily contributed to enhancing the Kyverno project's security and functionality, focusing on image verification. They implemented support for Cosign key-value annotations, added issuer and subject checks for keyless signing, and added a digest mutation feature for image verification. Their work involved modifying the `pkg/cosign` and `api/kyverno` packages to incorporate new verification methods and parameters, and also added tests for the introduced features.
policycosignpolicy-managementk8skubernetes
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