Hey , I'm Kunal!

About Me 🚀

🎓 I’m an Open-Source enthusiast & a junior pursuing my Bachelors in Computer Science & Engineering.
👨‍💻 I am passionate about Kubernetes, Web Dev, Machine Learning, DevOps & I enjoy learning new things.

My Experiences 🙌

• Developer Advocate (Civo) - The first pure play cloud native service powered only by Kubernetes.
• CNCF Ambassador - CNAs are individuals who are passionate about CNCF technology and projects, recognized for their expertise, and willing to help others learn about the framework and community.
• Student Program Manager - Data on Kubernetes Community - Acting as a technical advisor to help scale the community & manage interns.
• Kubernetes 1.22 Release Team Shadow - The Shadow system is an apprenticeship model, like those used by union tradespeople. The idea is that Shadows learn by doing, while in the process taking load off the leads and improving the release.
• Google Summer of Code Mentor at Code for Cause helping students contribute to Open Source projects for social good under the umbrella of Red Hat Middleware.
• GitHub Campus Expert - Student leaders that strive to build diverse and inclusive spaces to learn skills, share their experiences, and build projects together.
• Cloud Native Computing Foundation Intern (The Linux Foundation) - Worked on Thanos, highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage. Implemented features, context & actions to increase observability & control for BlockViewer.
• Instructor - Code in Place (CS106A) (Stanford University) - CS106A is one of most popular courses at Stanford University, taken by almost 1,600 students every year.
• MLH Coach - Major League Hacking Coaches are community members who represent Major League Hacking at events. They are passionate hackers and community members who love to teach and support peers of all skill levels. MLH Coaches are at your events mentoring hackers, supporting organizers, debugging issues, and much more!
• MLH Fellowship Team Leader - Mentored students during the MLH Fellowship for Open Source projects (Flask, Jinja, Click, Kiwi, Werkzeug, Julia Language, BentoML, SciML) & debugged technical issues.
• Google Summer of Code Mentor (Red Hat Middleware) for improving Gradle support in the Quarkus framework.
• Major League Hacking Fellow - Contributed to Open Source projects written in JavaScript with a focus on the React ecosystem, & added new features in Facebook's Jest.
• Google Code-in Mentor (Red Hat Middleware) for Kubernetes Java client, Web & Middleware technologies.
• Google Summer of Code Student Developer (Red Hat Middleware) - Worked on fabric8io-Kubernetes Java client for handling Kubernetes & OpenShift clusters.
• Teaching Assistant at Coding Blocks for Java, Python, Data Science & Machine Learning.
• Python Mentor (AnitaB.org) - Conducted doubt sessions & masterclasses for a group of 200+ students.
• Instructor at workshops conducted by 'CodeChef for Schools' for Competitive Programming.
• Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador - Conducted workshops & webinars on DevOps, Open Source, Cloud, ML, Web Dev, etc.

Honors & Awards 🏅

• Received 1 in 550 rare Community Hero badger from Microsoft for organising meetups, conferences, sharing content and being an active member of the community.
• Received a very rare AI Ambassador badger from Microsoft for organising, hosting and speaking at the Global AI Student Conference.
• Selected as 1 of 500 recipients for the Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Scholarship Program designed to upskill professionals interested in using emerging cloud technologies to enhance their organization's IT infrastructure.
• Selected as a recipient for the Linux Foundation Training (LiFT) Scholarship in the Developer Do-Gooders category.
• Selected as a scholarship recipient for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, Open Source Summit in 2019 & 2020.