Rakshith R

Software Engineer

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India5 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Implemented features boosting IOPS and reducing latency significantly.
Led end-to-end development for critical storage solutions.
Presented at major industry conferences.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Software Engineer with expertise in open-source storage solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

CephOpen-source DevelopmentPerformance OptimizationData SecurityCephcsiFeature DevelopmentIntegrationCsi-addonsDeep Learning

Other Skills

RookScrumFeature implementationFeature designDocumentationMentoringNFSComponent stabilizationTestingComputer visionReact.jsFront-end DevelopmentNode.jsResponsive Web DesignNext.js

Experience

5 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 11 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Ibm

Software Engineer

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Took on the role of a maintainer for two projects, actively engaging in open-source community, collaborating, and leading discussions on queries, issues, and feature development.
Presented at esteemed conferences such as Cephalocon 2023 and Ceph Days India 2023.
Responsible for leading weekly cross-teams scrum meetings.
Led the team through major and minor component releases.
Implemented the "Read Affinity" feature, boosting IOPS by 27%, reducing latency by 95%, and potentially saving customers up to 90% in costs.
Designed and implemented "Encryption Key Rotation" feature, vital for sustained sensitive data security.

CephRookOpen-source developmentScrumFeature developmentData security

Red hat

3 roles

Software Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2022 – Dec 2022 · 8 mos

Subject matter expert (SME) for CephCSI and CSI-Addons components.
Led end-to-end development of features, encompassing requirement gathering, design, development, and documentation.
Delivered multiple CSI-Addons releases.
Conducted presentations and training sessions for product support staff and mentored peers and new team members.
Contributed to adding "Network File System (NFS)" support for seamless customer transitions from an old end-of-life storage product.
Integrated support for multiple “Key Management Systems(KMS)” to the product to attract new customers and collaborations.

CephCSICSI-AddonsFeature developmentDocumentationMentoring

Associate Software Engineer

Jul 2021 – Mar 2022 · 8 mos

Contributed to the design and development of the CSI-Addons project, a critical backbone that supports various disaster recovery scenarios.
Actively led efforts to stabilize components and test suites, ensuring reliability and performance.
Managed cross-product dependencies, addressed several critical bugs, proposed and contributed multiple feature enhancements.

CSI-AddonsComponent stabilizationTesting

Engineering Intern

Jan 2021 – Jul 2021 · 6 mos

Joined the Openshift Data Foundation team, specializing in CephCSI and Rook for Ceph, a versatile software-defined storage system encompassing block, object, and file storage.
Gained hands-on experience in open-source software development and the process of productizing open-source solutions.
Rapidly acquired knowledge and made valuable contributions during the internship.

Open-source developmentCephRook

Samsung india

Graduate Research Intern

Mar 2020 – Oct 2020 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

As part of Samsung R&D PRISM program, Working on building a light weight, efficient and fast deep learning vision model to infere actions in videos for mobile devices.

Deep learningComputer vision

Rocket software

Intern

Jun 2018 – Aug 2018 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

As part of Rocket Software Inc's community build project, I worked on E-Beats, location tracking application for karnataka police department for supervisors to assign and monitor beat locations to constables.

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Execom

Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

I was part of IEEE RITB student branch core team.I served on the web team, maintaining the branch’s website.
Organized and Coordinated
● Uno Arduino, Technical contest based on Arduino with more than 50 participants.
● Code-Rush, Two round competition based on coding and logical thinking with more than 100 participants.
● multiple workshops during the term.