Kedar Kulkarni
Kedar Vijay Kulkarni is a cloud computing and DevOps expert with extensive experience in infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and software development. He has contributed significantly to open-source projects, including Ansible, OVN-Kubernetes, OpenStack Horizon, and Red Hat OpenShift, with his work directly impacting Fortune 500 companies.
Kedar has published ~25 technical articles on platforms like Red Hat Blogs(aka Enable Sysadmin), OpenSource.com, covering Kubernetes networking, container security, and CI/CD best practices. He is also a co-author of the e-book Tales from the Field: A System Administrator’s Guide to IT Automation.
Currently, he works at Apple, where he architects scalable CI/CD pipelines, manages infrastructure automation, and enhances developer experience through system optimizations. His research has led to multiple patents, including one granted by the USPTO and cited by Juniper Networks. He is also a member of the IEEE CS SYP Communications Committee, Fellow at Hackathon Raptors, IEEE Senior Member, and Panelist at IEEE Admissions and Advancements committee.
In his free time, he rides his motorcycle, explores emerging trends in AI/ML, IoT, and tinkers with smart home.