Rafi Kc
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolRafi Kc is a Senior Software Engineer based in Bengaluru with 11 years of experience building and hardening distributed storage systems at Red Hat. He is a core contributor to the widely used GlusterFS project, where he focused on RDMA transport reliability—resolving mount hangs, crash scenarios, and memory-sharing bugs—and improved volume-status behavior for tiered volumes. At Red Hat since 2014 he progressed from Associate to Senior Engineer, bringing pragmatic, low-level troubleshooting and production-oriented fixes to large open-source codebases. He holds a B.Tech in Computer Science from College of Engineering Trivandrum and actively seeks further open-source collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PPMHSS Kottukkara KondottyBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at College of Engineering, Trivandrum
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Github Skills (10)
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filesystem10
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gluster/glusterfs
Sep 2014 - Sep 2022
Gluster Filesystem : Build your distributed storage in minutes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 511 commits, 23 PRs in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Rafi primarily contributed to the Gluster Filesystem project by addressing issues related to Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) functionality. Their work involved fixing bugs that caused mount hangs and crashes in the RDMA transport, particularly concerning the handling of disconnect events and ensuring correct behavior during client-server communication. The contributions involved modifying the code to address the issues caused by delays in network and the correct handling of the shared resource for the memory. This also involved improvements in the volume status command for tiering volume and memory management.
erasure-codingstoragepersistent-storagedistributed-storagefuse-filesystem
rafikc30/glusterfs
Oct 2020 - Feb 2025
Gluster Filesystem : Build your storage in minutes
Contributions:49 pushes, 25 branches in 4 years 4 months
glustergridfsglusterfscloud-storagefilesystem
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