Hi 👋, I'm Sahil Bhardwaj

Production Engineer • Open Source Contributor • Cloud Native • Kubernetes • Platform Engineering

📍 Mumbai, India  | 
☁️ Kubernetes • Tekton • ML-Flow • Go • Java • Spring Boot

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👨‍💻 About Me

Actively contributing to Kubernetes, Tekton Pipelines, TensorFlow, KServe, HolmesGPT, and other cloud-native open-source projects.

I'm passionate about building scalable backend systems, distributed platforms, Kubernetes controllers, developer tooling, observability, and AI-powered applications.

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Open Source Contributions

☸ Kubernetes

• API Server webhook endpoint readiness improvements.
• API Machinery validation enhancements.
• Production-grade fixes around admission and endpoint selection.
• Working with SIG API Machinery maintainers on controller/runtime internals.

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⚙️ Tekton Pipelines (Merged)

✅ Introduced TaskRun Pending State, enabling pending execution behavior similar to PipelineRuns.

✅ Optimized controller performance by stripping ManagedFields before informer cache insertion, reducing memory usage and DeepCopy overhead.

🚧 Working on:

• ResolutionRequest reconciliation improvements
• OpenTelemetry trace propagation
• Kubernetes Event tracing
• Controller performance enhancements

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TensorFlow

• Fixed tf.linalg.logdet() to correctly return -∞ for singular matrices instead of NaN.
• Added comprehensive regression tests.
• Worked directly with TensorFlow maintainers through review iterations.

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KServe

• Documentation improvements.
• HTTPRoute specification clarifications.
• Networking and serving enhancements.

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HolmesGPT

• Added W3C Trace Context extraction support for FastAPI requests.

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MLRun

• Fixed project configuration loading for Git/API-based projects.

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🚀 Featured Projects

| Project | Description |
|---------|-------------|
| SarvamDesk | Enterprise-grade IT Service Management platform with ticketing, assets, SLA automation and microservices architecture. |
| PromptLens | OpenTelemetry-powered observability platform for AI agents with traces, sessions, prompt analytics and cost monitoring. |
| Granthiq | NotebookLM-inspired AI knowledge platform featuring Hybrid RAG, MCP integration, reranking and research agents. |
| Nirmaan | Terminal-based coding agent supporting OpenAI, Groq, Ollama and vLLM with event tracing and benchmarking. |
| DropTag | Secure file & text sharing platform with temporary rooms and cloud storage. |

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Technical Skills

Languages

• Go
• Java
• Python
• TypeScript

Backend

• Spring Boot
• FastAPI
• Node.js
• Express

Cloud Native

• Kubernetes
• Tekton Pipelines
• Docker
• OpenTelemetry
• Prometheus
• Grafana

Databases

• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Qdrant
• MongoDB

DevOps

• GitHub Actions , ArgoCD
• CI/CD
• Linux
• Git
• Terraform

Cloud

• Google Cloud Platform
• AWS
• Microsoft Azure

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🏆 Highlights

• Multiple merged contributions to Tekton Pipelines
• Active contributor to Kubernetes
• Contributor to TensorFlow
• Contributor to Spring AI
• Contributor to Falco
• Contributor to KServe
• Contributor to HolmesGPT
• Contributor to MLRun

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Currently Learning

• Kubernetes API Machinery
• Controller Runtime
• Distributed Systems
• Platform Engineering
• OpenTelemetry
• Service Mesh
• Cloud Native Architecture

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Connect with Me

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sahil-bhardwaj-513326208/
• 📧 Email: [email protected]

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⭐ If you like my work, feel free to connect or collaborate on Open Source projects!

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