MAY — SEP 2026
Google Summer of Code
Contributor · Meshery
Extended infrastructure models, relationships, and schemas across Kubernetes and major cloud providers. Contributed to mesheryctl and Infrastructure-as-Design workflows.
ENGINEER BY CRAFT. EXPLORER BY DEFAULT.
Yash Mahakal / Cloud-native engineer
A Kubestronaut engineering reliable systems,
contributing to open source, and exploring what’s next.
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YASH MAHAKALCNCF CERTIFIED KUBESTRONAUT
18.5204° N 73.8567° E
EARTH, INDIA · EXPLORING EVERYWHERE
EARTH, INDIA · EXPLORING EVERYWHERE
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MISSION 001 / THE JOURNEY IS JUST BEGINNING
CERTIFIED FOR
THE UNKNOWN
2026 ↗
THE UNKNOWN
⎈CKAAdministrator
⎈CKADApplication Developer
⎈CKSSecurity Specialist
⎈KCNACloud Native Associate
⎈KCSASecurity Associate
CLASS OF2026 ↗
01 / THE ASTRONAUTCURIOUS MIND. GROUNDED ENGINEER.
A little gravity.
A lot of curiosity.
I build the systems that let
great ideas take flight.
I’m Yash, a cloud-native engineer who feels at home somewhere between Kubernetes clusters, open-source communities, and the next hard problem.
From modeling infrastructure at Meshery through Google Summer of Code to building evidence-driven incident response, I care about making complex systems understandable, reliable, and useful.
Off the terminal, you’ll find me sharing what I learn, hosting community conversations, and helping other developers find their orbit.
Meet me on GitHub ↗200+
PRs across Meshery
05
Kubernetes certifications
60
Students mentored
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Things left to explore
02 / SELECTED MISSIONSBUILT WITH INTENTION. SHIPPED WITH CARE.
Ideas sent
into orbit.
All repositories ↗ INCIDENTPILOTOBSERVE → UNDERSTAND → RESOLVE
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SIGNAL ACQUIRED
EVIDENCE OVER GUESSWORK.
EVIDENCE OVER GUESSWORK.
KUBERNETES · AIOPS · SREMISSION 01 ↗
RELIABILITY / AI
IncidentPilot ↗
Turning Kubernetes incidents into evidence-backed answers. Constrained investigation, reproducible failure scenarios, and policy-governed remediation.
RIFT / REWINDMISSION 02 ↗
YOUR SEASON. REIMAGINED.AI × GAMING
SERVERLESS / GENERATIVE AI
Rift-Rewind ↗
An AI-powered League of Legends yearbook. Your gameplay becomes a personalized story with Claude on AWS Bedrock.
CLOUD / OBSERVABILITY
InfraAudit ↗
AI-assisted multi-cloud monitoring for cost anomalies and security configuration drift.
SYSTEMS / COMMUNICATION
Across the wire ↗
Exploring language-agnostic communication with bidirectional gRPC streaming.
03 / FLIGHT PATHSMALL STEPS. MEANINGFUL IMPACT.
Never flying
solo.
Open source is where I build,
learn, and give back.
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BUILT IN THE OPENPOWERED BY COMMUNITY
OPEN SOURCE & COMMUNITY
More than pull requests.
Community Manager · Meshery
200+ PRs across the organization, community meetings, and representing Meshery at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026 in Mumbai.
JAN — MAY 2025
Building in the cloud
DevOps & Cloud Intern · F13 Technologies
AWS platforms, automated infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and containerized workflows. Bringing services and their documentation together with Backstage.
2022 — 2026
A foundation. A launchpad.
B.E. Computer Engineering · PDEA’s College of Engineering
DevOps & Cloud Lead at GDG On Campus. Led workshops, mentored 60 students, and spoke about platform engineering and cloud-native technologies.
04 / ONBOARD TOOLKITTHE RIGHT TOOLS FOR THE MISSION.
My kind of spacecraft.
Cloud & containers
Kubernetes · Docker · AWS
Azure · GCP · Helm
Build & automate
Go · Python · Terraform
GitHub Actions · Argo CD · FluxCD
Observe & protect
Prometheus · Grafana · OpenTelemetry
OPA · Kyverno · Falco
Developer platforms
Backstage · Meshery
Cilium · Istio · Linux
05 / FLIGHT LOGNOTES FROM THE JOURNEY.
Learn. Build.
Write it down.
Follow on Medium ↗PERSONAL LOG / 21 SEP 2026
My Kubestronaut Journey
Through a Chaotic Year
The human side of five Kubernetes certifications.
A field note from the journey to Kubestronaut.
COMMUNICATION CHANNEL OPEN
Great things start
with a hello.*
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