DevOps Engineer with expertise in bare metal infrastructure and on-premise Kubernetes deployments. I focus on building reliable, scalable systems without relying on managed cloud services.
Currently at Tapsell, building and maintaining production infrastructure.
A chronological record of pull requests I have authored and merged into notable open-source projects (1,000+ stars). Nine are CNCF projects; the maturity level is shown where published by the CNCF TOC.
| Date | Repository (PR) | Stars | CNCF Status | PR Title | What it's used for |
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| 2026-08-13 | cilium/cilium #47826 | 24,924 | Graduated | gateway-api: log the right route kind for TLSRoutes | K8s networking, security & observability via eBPF (CNI, service mesh) |
| 2026-08-06 | coredns/coredns #8316 | 14,242 | Graduated | image: pin numeric uid/gid for nonroot user | DNS server for service discovery in Kubernetes |
| 2026-06-08 | ansible/ansible-lint #5060 | 3,896 | — | fix: ignore skip lookup across rules | Linter that checks Ansible playbooks for bugs & best practices |
| 2026-04-02 | VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics #10493 | 17,522 | Graduated | Add split phase metrics for filestream fsync | Fast time-series database for Prometheus metrics & long-term storage |
| 2026-02-28 | gin-gonic/gin #4542 | 89,115 | — | test(context): use http.StatusContinue constant | HTTP web framework for building Go REST APIs & microservices |
| 2026-02-13 | caddyserver/caddy #7473 | 74,907 | Graduated | caddyfile: Add renewal_window_ratio global option | Web server & reverse proxy with automatic HTTPS (TLS renewal) |
| 2026-02-13 | woodpecker-ci/woodpecker #6066 | 7,674 | Sandbox | Improve selinux docs | Docker-native CI/CD engine that runs pipelines in containers |
| 2026-02-07 | kubetail-org/kubetail #945 | 1,755 | Sandbox | Update AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md | Real-time tailing & aggregation of Kubernetes pod logs |
| 2024-07-23 | locustio/locust #2814 | 28,070 | — | Fix Dockerfile style warning | Load testing of web apps/APIs by simulating user traffic |
| 2023-10-16 | aquasecurity/trivy #5193 | 37,382 | Graduated | docs: Update container_image.md | Security scanner for containers, code & K8s (vulns, misconfig, secrets, SBOM) |
| 2023-03-03 | cortexproject/cortex #5159 | 5,848 | Incubating | Update Dockerfile | Scalable, long-term Prometheus metrics storage & querying |
Star counts are live as of Aug 2026. CNCF maturity: Graduated / Incubating / Sandbox per the CNCF TOC; "—" denotes a non-CNCF project.
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| Project | Description |
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| DevOps-tools | Comprehensive collection of DevOps tools, scripts, and configurations |
| github-issue-finder | Go CLI tool that monitors 500+ DevOps projects for good first issues |
| Harbor-ansible-vagrant | Automated Harbor registry deployment with Ansible and Vagrant |
| k8s | Kubernetes installation, configuration, and deployment guides |
- Bare Metal Kubernetes: Production-grade K8s on physical hardware
- Infrastructure Automation: Ansible, Terraform, and custom scripts
- Observability Stack: Prometheus, Grafana, and distributed tracing
- Golang Development: CLI tools and automation scripts
- Email: [email protected]
- LinkedIn: mehrdad-biukian-naeini