Ronak Nathani — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Principal Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn, leading the Kubernetes platform team managing 350,000+ machines and 5M+ containers.
Co-started LinkedIn's Kubernetes platform team in 2019, growing it into the core compute substrate for 3,000+ applications.
Designed and built major parts of LinkedIn's Kubernetes platform, including cluster management, scheduling, and infrastructure-as-code.
Co-hosts "Software Misadventures," a podcast interviewing engineers, founders, and investors.
Co-led the Data Engineering Fellows Program at Insight Data Science, building internal data infrastructure and teaching data engineering.

Biography

Ronak Nathani is a Principal Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn, where he leads the Kubernetes platform team. He co-started this team in 2019 and played a key role in developing Kubernetes into LinkedIn's core compute substrate. This platform manages over 350,000 machines and 5 million containers, supporting more than 3,000 applications and handling over 110,000 deploys per week.