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Resume

Printable resume for Prasanth Baskar.

Open Source Software Engineer focused on Harbor, Kubernetes, OCI registries, platform engineering, developer tooling, and software supply chains.

Email: bupdprasanth@gmail.com
GitHub: github.com/bupd
Website: bupd.xyz
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/prasanth-baskar

Experience

Open Source Software Engineer, 8gears

Working around Harbor, container registries, OCI artifacts, platform engineering, and cloud-native infrastructure.

  • Maintainer and contributor in the Harbor ecosystem, including goharbor/harbor-cli, goharbor/harbor, and related community repositories.
  • Build and experiment with next-generation registry workflows through container-registry/harbor-next and container-registry/harbor-satellite.
  • Work across Go, TypeScript, shell tooling, Kubernetes workflows, and OCI artifact systems.

Selected Open Source Work

  • container-registry/harbor-next: 201 public contributions in the past year.
  • container-registry/harbor-satellite: 171 public contributions in the past year.
  • goharbor/harbor-cli: 93 public contributions in the past year.
  • goharbor/harbor: 73 public contributions in the past year.
  • oras-project/oras, kitops-ml/kitops, modelpack/modctl, and kubernetes/contributor-site: ecosystem contributions around OCI, model artifacts, and Kubernetes community documentation.

Projects

  • bupd/arch-bootc-hetzner: immutable Arch Linux bootc deployment on Hetzner Cloud VPS.
  • bupd/harbor-mcp-server: MCP server connecting Harbor workflows to AI agents.
  • bupd/context-usage-tmux: tmux status-bar widget for Claude Code and Codex usage windows.
  • bupd/dotfiles: Arch Linux, Neovim, shell, and terminal workflow configuration.

Talks

  • Harbor Maintainers Talk: Role of Harbor in AI, IoT Edge and the Future.
  • Standardizing the Unstandardized: Securing AI Supply Chain With Model-Spec and KitOps.
  • Beyond ImagePullBackOff: A Stateless, Secret-less Distributed Registry.
  • Know Your Registry: Harbor.

Skills

Go, TypeScript, Shell, Kubernetes, Harbor, OCI registries, GitOps, Linux, Arch Linux, Neovim, tmux, CI/CD, software supply chains, platform engineering, AI agent tooling.

Education

Former Mechanical Engineering background, now applying manufacturing, quality-control, and production-line thinking to software platforms.