Gaurav Rai

Application Engineer

Loblaw Companies Limited • Fulltime

Jul 2024 - Present • 2 yrs 2 mos

• Built internal automation tools with Golang, Terraform, and GitLab CI/CD pipelines to reduce manual toil, improve engineering efficiency, and enable reliable, GitOps-driven workflows with ArgoCD. • Developed and maintained observability-focused applications integrated with OpenTelemetry, Fluent Bit, Grafana, and ClickHouse, providing unified logs, metrics, and traces across production environments. • Kubernetes Operator: Designed and built a custom Kubernetes operator and controller in Golang using the Operator SDK to automate lifecycle management of internal platform resources via CRDs and reconciliation loops. • Helped multiple internal teams adopt automated deployment and monitoring workflows using Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and custom tooling, improving release quality and reducing operational review cycles.