Darshan Jain

Building resilient infrastructure. Breaking it on purpose.

Darshan Jain

I build tools that break infrastructure on purpose — so production stays up when it matters.

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Work

Senior Software Engineer

Red Hat

January 2026 – Present

  • Core contributor to Krkn, an open-source chaos engineering framework for testing Kubernetes and OpenShift infrastructure resilience
  • Shipping new chaos scenarios and improving developer onboarding based on community feedback
  • Presented Krkn at DevConf Pune 2026; gathered field feedback from IT professionals and fed insights into the product roadmap
  • Representing Krkn at meetups and conferences to grow the contributor community

Senior Lead Software Engineer

HeapTrace Technology

October 2018 – December 2025 · 7 yrs 3 mos

  • Architected multi-tenant backend services in Spring Boot with role-based access controls
  • Built high-performance ingestion APIs using Falcon framework, handling 10K+ events/min
  • Designed AWS SQS pipeline for real-time, fault-tolerant patient vitals ingestion
  • Saved $40,000 annually by shifting EC2 workloads to Reserved Instances
  • Migrated jobs to Lambda, reducing costs by 75% and improving speed by 5x
  • Implemented Blue-Green deployments for 15+ ECS microservices
  • Architected HIPAA-compliant Engage app with OAuth2/Keycloak auth, Amazon Lexbot, Lambda, and Twilio API
  • Mentored 4+ junior developers; led testing strategy that raised coverage to 85% and reduced bugs by 90%

Featured Projects

Kubernetes MCP Server

MCP server that lets AI agents inspect and manage Kubernetes clusters via natural language—useful when you want to troubleshoot or run kubectl-style tasks from a chat interface.

Python Kubernetes MCP AI
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RAG Application with Qdrant

RAG app using the Qdrant vector database so you can ask questions over your own documents instead of searching manually. Good for internal docs or knowledge bases.

Python Qdrant RAG AI
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Speaking

About

Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat on the Performance & Scale team. I work on Krkn, an open-source chaos engineering framework for testing Kubernetes and OpenShift infrastructure resilience.

Before Red Hat I spent 7+ years at HeapTrace building backend systems with Java, Spring Boot, and Python — multi-tenant services, high-throughput APIs, HIPAA-compliant applications, and cost-saving infrastructure. I care about reliability, observability, and making systems that survive failure.

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Get in touch

Here’s the best way to reach me.

nnd.darshan@gmail.com

Pune, India (Open to Relocation)

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