Atharva Mhaske is a Backend and Infra Engineer at cld9.ai, working remotely from Pune, India, and a Google Summer of Code 2026 mentee with Open Science Labs.

He contributes to OpenTelemetry Go compile-time instrumentation, with 20+ merged pull requests across the project and its docs. He added instrumentation for RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, and Zap, and improved GenAI telemetry for the OpenAI and Anthropic Go SDKs.

On OpenEverest, a CNCF Sandbox project, he led and shipped the KServe provider for serving LLMs on Kubernetes, with vLLM metrics, autoscaling, multi-node serving, LoRA adapters, and Envoy AI Gateway support. He also ran the OpenEverest booth at KubeCon India 2026.

He speaks at CNCG Pune and has written for the OpenEverest blog. For fun, he plays with AI agents and local LLM inference, and writes about his experiments for 6k followers on X and 12k on LinkedIn.