About me

I'm Anvesh Reddy Pinnapureddy — a Software Development Engineer at SAP Labs, working on Project Gardener — a Kubernetes-as-a-Service platform that manages Kubernetes clusters at scale across multiple cloud providers. I'm part of the Core Infrastructure - Etcd team.

My primary focus is systems engineering — the space where software meets infrastructure. I work mostly with Go, Kubernetes, and distributed systems like etcd. I'm particularly interested in consensus algorithms, container orchestration internals, Kubernetes operators, and building tooling that makes engineers' lives easier.

I graduated from IIIT Hyderabad in 2023 with a B.Tech in Electronics and Communications Engineering. During college, I also worked as a Teaching Assistant and interned at Samsung R&D Institute and iHub-Data, IIIT Hyderabad.

What I'm focused on

  • Building and maintaining Project Gardener — Kubernetes-as-a-Service at SAP
  • Working on etcd operators (etcd-druid) and backup-restore infrastructure
  • Deep diving into distributed consensus and etcd internals
  • Writing about systems engineering on this blog
  • Building Kubernetes controllers and operators in Go

Currently

Reading

The Pragmatic Programmer — David Thomas & Andrew Hunt

The Art of Strategy — Avinash K. Dixit & Barry J. Nalebuff

Building

etcd operators and backup-restore tooling for Kubernetes clusters at scale

Learning

Integrating AI agents into infrastructure — exploring how LLM-powered agents can solve cloud & Kubernetes operational problems

Want to see what tools I use day to day? Check out my /uses page.