I'm Kavitha Karunakaran, a seasoned Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience in the IT industry. This is where I would be nerding on Open Source, Software Architecture ( and sometimes ponder about life decisions 😆)

• 🔭 I’m currently volunteering as an Open Source Contributor for Meshery, the cloud native manager in CNCF. A Certified Meshery Contributor since February 12, 2026. I've hosted one round of Study Group for Certified Meshery Contributor certificate aspirants, which was livestreamed in YouTube and can be viewed here. You can checkout my member profile at Layer5io here
• 🎖️ Recently became member of GitHub Community for:
  • Layer5io
  • Meshery
• 🌱 I’m currently learning a bit of everything everyday. 🤷
• 👯 I’m looking to collaborate on more open source projects that would change the world.
• 🤔 I’m looking to help with mentoring juniors, troubleshooting, bug fixes, enhancements etc.
• 💬 Ask me about Java, Golang, Python or system design.
• 😄 Pronouns: She/her/hers
• 🤩 Interests: CNCF, LF, K8s, K3s, Docker, Storage and Network virtualizations
• 😉 Hobbies: I am into pencil sketches, carnatic vocals, playing keyboard/guitar and swimming.

Uh, that has a funny backstory. And that has nothing to do with the matrix trilogy. 😑 I know..

Not a sad story, don’t worry. Back in college, I was bizarrely good at Math. Like, matrix Math. Reduction, transpose, spooky wizardry.

I could reduce and tame scary matrices in 3 or 4 steps while others did the same in 10 or 12 steps. How? No idea. Do I remember how now? Absolutely not. 😶

My classmates nicknamed me matrix. I still remember standing like Adi Shakti devi in front of that examhall in 2006, with my hands positioned in a blessing gesture while a couple of my then classmates kneeled in front of me seeking my blessings before they attended the exam 🤪

Fast-forward to the future: I casually added “kavi” to it and now use matrixkavi everywhere possible online, forever, because apparently this is how lifelong branding decisions are made.😎