Hello, I'm
Atharva Patil
Software Engineer II. Building systems that scale and think.
Software Engineer II @ Mercedes-Benz R&D, Bangalore
10M+ Requests Handled Daily
15K+ Secrets Identified
72 Teams Served
3+ LLM Providers Unified
About
Building, breaking,
and fixing things.
Software Engineer II at Mercedes-Benz working across APIs, LLM infrastructure, MCP servers, DevOps, and self-hosted inference. Passionate about building, breaking (and fixing), and having fun doing it. Big on clean code, fast cars, and solving real-world problems with tech that scales.
B.Tech in Computer Science from Dayananda Sagar University (2019–2023).
3+ Years @ Mercedes-Benz
4 Awards Won
👨💻
Projects
Things I've built.
A selection of projects that showcase my skills and interests.
API Management Platform
Enterprise platform handling 10M+ requests/day on Kubernetes with 99.95% uptime. Kong gateway + Kafka event streaming. Grafana dashboards, HPA, zero-downtime rolling updates. 50+ teams.
Software Engineer II · Mercedes-Benz R&DLLM Proxy Gateway
Unified LLM gateway handling 500K+ requests/day across Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, VertexAI. Built on in-house API Mgmt platform for auth, rate limiting, and usage quotas. vLLM cut cost 60%.
Graduate Trainee · Mercedes-Benz R&DEnterprise Secret Scanner
Secret detection pipeline scanning 100,000+ repos using Gitleaks & TruffleHog. Found 15,000+ secrets, 99.9% remediation. DefectDojo for visibility & triage. Powered by K8s Job Controller.
Graduate Trainee · Mercedes-Benz R&DCustom Kubernetes Job Controller
Custom K8s controller watching multiple CRD types via informer pattern. Auto-scales Jobs with concurrency limits, Jinja2-templated manifests, exponential backoff. 100,000+ scan jobs executed.
Software Engineer II · Mercedes-Benz R&DCode Compliance Platform
AI-augmented compliance platform scanning 100,000+ repos, processing 200,000+ checks/week. Convoy webhook management + NATS JetStream for event delivery. Claude Code automated review. EKS.
Software Engineer II · Mercedes-Benz R&DKubernetes Infrastructure (72 Teams)
Provisioned and operated production K8s clusters, ELK stacks, and bare-metal servers for ~500 engineers. Ansible automation cut provisioning from days to hours.
Intern · Mercedes-Benz R&DCI/CD & DevOps Automation
GitHub Actions pipelines for 15+ projects with SonarQube gates. Rolling update strategies, readiness probes, PDB configs. Reduced deployment time 70%.
Intern · Mercedes-Benz R&DOpen Source
Contributions.
Contributing to security tooling and AI infrastructure used by thousands of organizations.
| Date | Repository | Contribution | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2026 | github/github-mcp-server | Official MCP Server (27k+ Stars) Fixed OAuth config for GHES & refactored host resolver logic in Go. | PR ↗ |
| 2024 – Present | gitleaks/gitleaks | Secret Detection Engine (16k+ Stars) Detection rule authoring, regex optimization, and false-positive reduction. | Repo ↗ |
| 2024 – Present | trufflesecurity/trufflehog | Credential Scanner (18k+ Stars) Enterprise-scale secret detection and verification improvements. | Repo ↗ |
Skills
My toolkit.
Technologies and tools I work with every day.
Backend Development
AI & LLM Engineering
Databases & Gateways
DevOps & Infrastructure
Cloud & Automation
Experience
Where I've worked.
Software Engineer II
Aug 2024 – PresentMercedes-Benz Research and Development · Bangalore
API platform (10M+ req/day, Kong, Kafka). Custom K8s Job Controller (CRDs, 100K+ jobs). Code Compliance (100K+ repos, Convoy, NATS JetStream). Grafana observability.
Graduate Trainee Engineer
Aug 2023 – Aug 2024Mercedes-Benz Research and Development · Bangalore
LLM Gateway (500K+ req/day, vLLM self-hosted inference). Secret Scanner pipeline (100K+ repos, 15K+ secrets found). Gitleaks & TruffleHog integration.
Intern
Feb 2023 – Aug 2023Mercedes-Benz Research and Development · Bangalore
Bare-metal K8s clusters + ELK stacks for 72 teams (~500 engineers). CI/CD for 15+ projects. Reduced deploy time 70%.
Open Source
GitHub Activity.
My contributions and pinned repositories.
Pinned Repositories
DefectDojo/django-DefectDojo
Open-Source Unified Vulnerability Management, DevSecOps & ASPM
github/github-mcp-server
GitHub's official MCP Server
gitleaks
Protect and discover secrets using Gitleaks 🔑
portfolio
My personal portfolio website built with SvelteKit, TypeScript, and mdsvex for blogging.
Contribution Graph
Awards
Recognition.
Excellence Award
Mercedes-Benz R&D · August 2025
Best Team Award
Mercedes-Benz R&D · February 2025
Champion of the Month
Mercedes-Benz R&D · November 2024
Spontan Award
Mercedes-Benz R&D · December 2024
Contact
Let's connect.
Based in Bangalore, India. Always up for interesting conversations about tech, F1, or a good trek.
🏎️ Formula 1 · 🏔️ Trekking · 🏍️ Motorcycling · 🏸 Badminton · 🏃 Running · 🎮 Video Games