Oct 2025 – Present · 8 mos · Hybrid

• Drive maintenance and continuous improvement of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), ensuring stability, performance, and long-term support for enterprise customers.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve complex issues across multiple RHEL components with improved technical depth and domain expertise.
• Work extensively on security and infrastructure packages including OpenSSL, libssh, aide, expat, httpd, BIND, NGINX, CUPS, Ghostscript, Varnish, TuneD, and rsync, developing a deeper understanding of their internals and interactions within the RHEL ecosystem.
• Perform software maintenance tasks, backport patches and CVE fixes, and support ongoing software lifecycle management across multiple release streams.
• Collaborate with global engineering, QE, and release teams to deliver timely, high-quality updates and ensure consistency across stable releases.
• Support and enhance automated test and build pipelines, contributing to higher validation accuracy and reduced manual overhead.
• Contribute to monitoring and reporting systems to improve visibility into patch status, issue triage, and release quality.
• Apply strong troubleshooting and debugging skills to identify root causes, implement sustainable solutions, and document best practices.
• Continue leading AI and automation initiatives, applying machine learning and LLM-based tools to optimize workflows and accelerate issue resolution.
• Mentor peers and assist in cross-team collaboration, sharing knowledge and improving engineering efficiency.

Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos · Hybrid

• Maintain and enhance Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), ensuring long-term stability, performance, and security for enterprise customers.
• Diagnose and fix complex bugs, backport CVE and security fixes, and deliver timely updates across multiple RHEL release streams.
• Work on critical security and cryptography packages including OpenSSL, libssh, aide, expat, and perl, handling vulnerability triage, patch backporting, and secure release delivery under tight SLAs.
• Contribute to key infrastructure and networking components such as httpd, BIND, NGINX, CUPS, Ghostscript, Varnish, TuneD, rsync, and iperf3, ensuring reliability and interoperability across enterprise environments.
• Design and integrate build and test pipeline automation to improve validation accuracy, accelerate testing, and reduce manual effort.
• Collaborate with global development, QE, and release teams to deliver high-quality, production-ready fixes on schedule.
• Lead internal initiatives using AI, ML, and LLMs to optimize workflows, improve developer efficiency, and automate common engineering tasks.
• Act as a go-to engineer for debugging, mentorship, and cross-team problem-solving.
• Delivered multiple technical talks at DevConf.IN, DevConf.US (Boston University), and Red Hat Pune, covering topics like Linux security, debugging, and system reliability.
• Helped organize Red Hat’s global developer conference, contributing to community building and knowledge sharing.

Aug 2023 – Feb 2024 · 6 mos · Hybrid

• Actively participate and contribute to test planning and development of automated tests
• and testing framework for a complex containerized application for Red Hat Hybrid Cloud
• Console.
• Write high quality and efficient API and UI tests with python and selenium.
• Work closely with other QA Engineers from different Geo’s to enhance the automation
• and increase overall test coverage.
• Identify and report bugs, issues and enhancements and conduct verification of enhancements and features.
• Participate in test automation pipelines, monitoring Jenkins jobs and debugging of failed
• tests.