About

Laxmikant Bhaskar Pandhare is a highly skilled Staff Software Engineer with over four years of experience in the information technology and services industry. He is currently pursuing a Masters in Software Engineering with a specialization in Enterprise Software Technologies at San Jose State University. Laxmikant has a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) focused on Computer Engineering from Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune University. Laxmikant has a strong passion for software engineering and is always eager to work with new technologies and in challenging environments. He has a wealth of experience in programming languages such as Java, Javascript, Go, Python, C, and COBOL. He is also proficient in web technologies such as NodeJS (Express), ReactJS, Vue.js, KAFKA, Redis, Redux, HTML5, CSS, PassportJS, RESTful API, HTML, CSS, XML, and JSON. Additionally, Laxmikant has expertise in cloud technologies such as Apache Kafka, Mocha, JUnit, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Heroku, Grafana, and Prometheus. He is also knowledgeable in databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, DB2, and Redis. Currently, Laxmikant is working as a Software Engineer at Red Hat and has previously worked as a Software Engineering Intern at OpenShift. In these roles, he developed Kubernetes operators for Java and Quarkus applications and explored operators in Node (Javascript). He also contributed to the functionality of controller-runtime and helped with the Operator SDK 1.0 release tasks. Laxmikant is proficient in tools such as JMeter, JIRA, Git, Kanban, Agile, and Scrum. Laxmikant’s education history includes a Master of Science in Computer Software Engineering from San Jose State University and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Engineering from Vishwakarma Institute of Technology. His relevant experience is 7.44 years, and his tech stack includes Software Engineer, Kubernetes, Senior Software Engineer, Javascript, Redis, Kafka, AWS, Java, Spring, Docker, MySQL, MongoDB, Jenkins, Redux, GCP, Web, and NodeJS.