Pradumna Saraf
A dedicated open source developer and contributor with over 3 years of experience in coding, crafting technical content, community building, and delivering talks. I'm also an enthusiastic team player, skilled at effective collaboration, and capable of working independently to achieve goals.
Professional Experience
DevRel as a Service, Freelance
Feb 2024 - Present- Curated results-driven DevRel strategies to increase the adoption of client products, boost their GitHub repositories, docs, and drive growth in their developer communities.
- Created engaging technical content tailored to client needs, including blogs, videos, and social media posts, to educate audiences about products. My content collectively reached over 500K impressions.
- Covered technical topics, including Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Prometheus, Docker, Feature Flags, AI, and CNCF tools.
- Collaborated with top clients in the open source space, including Flagsmith, daily.dev, Dytona, Pieces.app and Hashnode.
Developer Advocate, Livecycle
Aug 2023 - April 2024- Launched a content/community-led developer advocacy effort as part of the company's go-to-market strategy.
- Created various strategies and initiatives to promote and increase adoption and contribution for our open-source Preevy and Docker extension. This helped to cross 1500 GitHub stars and gain over 100 active weekly users.
- Delivered various in-person talks, written technical blogs, social content, talk sessions, and video guides on the Livecycle YouTube channel to educate people about the product and underlying technologies like Docker, Cloud, GitHub Actions, etc.
- Actively nurtured the Livecycle Slack community, resulting in a membership growth from 0 to over 300 individuals, promoting collaboration and gathering product feedback and user needs.
- Planned, launched, and led the flagship Interview series—Navigating Docker With Captains, interviewing the exclusive group of people and Docker experts known as Docker Captains.
Open Source DevRel, Vruksh Ecosystem Foundation
Dec 2021 - Jul 2022- Built a roadmap and executed it to simplify the offering and make the entire product open source, while improving messaging around it and increasing adoption.
- Planned and hosted an online global hackathon—Hackatra, with over 300 participants, and partnered with companies like OpenAI, AI Future Labs, etc.
- Hosted online talk sessions on Twitter and LinkedIn, bringing industry experts to speak and leading discussions on various topics and technologies.
Docker Captain
July 2024 - Present- Recognized as a Docker Captain for my expertise and contributions to the Docker ecosystem. I have contributed to Docker's official documentation, created content on Docker and Docker Compose, helped open source projects adopt Docker, and more.
- Working with the official docs team to bring more content, such as how-to guides and language-specific resources, to cater to a broader audience. Collaborating with the Test Containers and Social teams.
- Delivering talks at conferences about various Docker technologies.
- Notable contributions: Go Prometheus Monitoring Guide, Deno Guide, Bun Guide, C++ Guide
Projects
Permit GitHub Webhook
A Node.js server that listens for GitHub organization membership events and syncs the data to Permit. Features Redis for event persistence and retry mechanisms, ensuring reliable updates even during service interruptions. Demonstrates event-driven architecture for syncing GitHub organization membership changes with Permit's permission system.
Tech Stack: Node.js, Redis, GitHub Webhooks, Permit.io
View Project →Go Prometheus Monitoring
A Golang application that demonstrates how to monitor a Golang service using Prometheus and Grafana. This project was created for Docker's official Go Language Guide, showcasing best practices for monitoring Go applications.
Tech Stack: Golang, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana
View Project →PullPrompt
A GitHub Action that comments on a Pull Request with a message generated from a user-given prompt. Under the hood, it uses Google's Gemini API to generate the text.
Tech Stack: Node.js, GitHub Actions, Google Gemini
View Project →GenCLI
An AI-powered CLI tool built with Golang that answers questions using the Google Gemini API. Features include dynamic model selection, image analysis, language preferences, and temperature control for response creativity.
Tech Stack: Golang, Cobra, Viper, Google Gemini API
View Project →KuReDoPoGo
A backend API service built with Golang and Gin Framework, featuring Redis for rate limiting and PostgreSQL for data storage. Designed for Kubernetes deployment with Docker Compose for local development.
Tech Stack: Golang, Gin, Redis, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Docker
View Project →Contributors
A GraphQL API built with Golang to capture and manage open source contributions data. It uses MongoDB for data storage and Redis for caching and rate limiting. For monitoring, it utilizes Prometheus and Grafana.
Tech Stack: Golang, GraphQL, MongoDB, Redis, Prometheus, Grafana, Kubernetes
View Project →DevOps
Learning hub to explore various tools and technologies in DevOps. Assisting thousands of learners, practitioners, and professionals every day in their DevOps journey. Over 2800+ GitHub stars with 1000 active visitors per week.
View Project →Skills
Languages: Golang, JavaScript, Node.js, Python, HTML, CSS
Technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud, Linux, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform, CI/CD, GraphQL, Grafana, Prometheus, GitOps, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, WebAssembly
Recognition & Achievements
- Docker Captain: Recognized as a Docker Captain for my contributions to the Docker ecosystem.
- Top Author on dev.to: Recognised as a top author on dev.to for my technical content and contributions.
- Winner: daily.dev RSS Feed Hackathon
- Winner: Postman API Fest Hackathon
Leadership Experience
- Founder and Organiser - Cloud Native Patna
- Mentor - Major League Hacking
- Maintainer - BioDrops (5800+ GitHub stars) - open source link aggregator
Conference Talks
- Speaker at SOSS Community Day (KubeCon), India to share how to improve software supply chain security.
- Speaker at Docker Bangalore Meet-up, to share about Docker Compose and the importance of preview environments.
- Speaker at Web3Conf, India to share the importance of Open Source and how to maintain a project effectively.