About

Sohan Kunkerkar is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat with over 7 years of experience in building and developing software. He is passionate about distributed systems and has a keen interest in backend engineering, cloud infrastructure, and containers. Sohan is an expert in Golang, Kubernetes, and AWS, and has experience working as a designer and integration specialist. Sohan's current role at Red Hat involves working on the CoreOS team, which develops and supports operating systems centered around containers. During his time as an intern at Red Hat, he gained valuable knowledge of open-source development and learned how to use upstream communities' strengths to create vendor-agnostic software. Sohan has also contributed to upstream Kubernetes projects like Kubebuilder, controller-tools, Kubefed, etc. while working on Openshift, an enterprise-ready Kubernetes solution. Before joining Red Hat, Sohan worked as a Senior Software Developer at Infosys, where he designed workflows for handling claims information using IBM Integration Designer and used Splunk tool for monitoring logs and analyzing data coming from the upstream process. He also worked as a Cloud Computing Associate at Greenadd, where he was part of a team responsible for developing and deploying Java applications on AWS for reducing costs for building infrastructure by 40%. Sohan also designed and maintained secure virtual environments on AWS. Sohan holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from North Carolina State University and a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from MCT's Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology. He has long been a member of the Fedora community and has addressed questions from community users. In his spare time, Sohan tries to learn about the open-source community's most recent ideas and solutions and contributes to them. Overall, Sohan has 8.45 years of relevant experience in the software engineering industry and is a highly skilled and knowledgeable professional with expertise in Golang, Kubernetes, and AWS.