About

Gautam Krishna R is a Full Stack Developer with over 5 years of experience in developing enterprise applications and frameworks. Currently working as a Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead at Red Hat, Gautam is a GitHub India Opensource Grants Winner and a DuckDuckGo community leader with multiple open source projects on Python, Node.js, Typescript, PHP, Java, Go, C++, etc. Gautam has hands-on experience working with Angular, React, GraphQL, Express, Flask, and several other libraries and frameworks. He also has experience in developing full-stack reusable and scalable OTT multimedia applications and frameworks. In his leisure time, Gautam contributes to open-source projects on GitHub. He has extensive contributions to DuckDuckGo's open source projects and was promoted as a maintainer with write access to all the DuckDuckGo's repositories. All of his projects released as open-source on GitHub, including two of his GitHub trending projects named SoCLI and Nothing Private. Currently leading the development of Red Hat Certified Technology Applications, Gautam mentors and trains Developers and Quality Engineers, plans and decides the product roadmap, and has revamped Container, Helm Chart, Openshift, and Openstack certifications. He has also revamped Red Hat partner onboarding flow and account management and led Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8,9 certification and Openshift 4.11, CNI, CSI, CSF certification. Gautam has worked as a Software Engineer and Team Lead at Red Hat in the past, where he led the development of Red Hat Certified Technology Applications and worked on various Red Hat PnT (Product and Technologies). He has contributed to SPAShip, a fully scalable single-page application deployment platform built on top of Kubernetes, and Patternfly, a design system for Red Hat apps. Gautam holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science and Engineering from Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology and completed his Higher Secondary in Computer Science from St. Aloysius HSS Kollam and High School from Holy Family Convent EMHS, Kollam. Gautam's tech stack includes Software Engineer, Javascript, Typescript, PHP, Flask, NodeJS, Python, Java, AngularJS, and Kubernetes. With 6.11 years of relevant experience, Gautam is always interested in hearing from friends, managers, or just interested creative folks.