Sajal Nigam is an Expert Application Engineer specializing in cloud-native platforms, DevOps automation, and intelligent Kubernetes governance. With more than 17 years of industry experience—seven of them in the United States—he has led large-scale modernization initiatives across financial services, distributed systems, and platform engineering.

His work has been featured across technical communities, DZone publications, and emerging research in AI-augmented DevOps. Sajal has authored multiple white papers on service mesh intelligence, observability, and agentic AI in cloud operations, and actively contributes to the open-source ecosystem with a focus on CNCF technologies.

Sajal speaks and writes about platform engineering, intelligent automation, and the future of cloud-native reliability, helping organizations build safer, faster, and more autonomous delivery systems.

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Guardon: Bringing Kubernetes Guardrails Directly to the Developer’s Browser

Kubernetes governance tools are powerful, but they often operate too late in the software delivery lifecycle—usually in CI/CD or at admission control. By the time a misconfiguration is caught, developers have already pushed code, reviewers must intervene, and pipelines waste costly compute.

In this talk, I introduce Guardon, a lightweight, local-first browser extension that brings Kubernetes guardrails directly to developers while they edit YAMLs in GitHub or GitLab. Guardon performs instant, offline validation of multi-document YAML files, imports Kyverno policies, and surfaces real-time guidance—all before a pull request is even created.

We’ll explore how this browser-native approach shifts compliance further left than existing tools, reduces friction for developers, and enables DevOps and platform teams to enforce organizational best practices without slowing teams down. This session includes a live demo, architectural breakdown, and insights into the future of developer-first Kubernetes security.

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