Abhinandan Purkait
Senior Software Development Engineer 1 at DataCore Software
Greater Kolkata Area India
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Top SchoolAbhinandan Purkait is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 8 years of experience building cloud-native storage and Kubernetes control plane software, currently shaping the MayaStor control plane at DataCore using Rust, Python, SPDK and Kubernetes. He has a track record of shipping production features—volume snapshots, topology-based replica scheduling, HA, and gRPC refactors—and maintains OpenEBS tooling used by the Kubernetes storage community. Comfortable across systems languages (Rust, C++, Go, Java, C#) and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana), he blends deep storage expertise with practical DevOps sensibilities. Early wins include leading a Dell Hack2Hire-winning recommendation system and a CodeChef-honored COVID visualization project, highlighting both product focus and rapid prototyping ability. Based in Greater Kolkata, he brings open-source collaboration experience and a tendency to eliminate brittle dependencies through pragmatic refactors.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, BhubaneswarHigh School Science, High School Science at Holy Cross High School - India
Github Skills (79)
zfs10
backend10
cloud-native10
k8s10
alpine-linux10
storage-engine10
openebs10
lvm10
kubectl10
persistent-storage10
dataplane10
rust10
csi10
kubernetes10
persistent-volumes10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Abhinandan-Purkait/zfs-localpv
Jun 2021 - Jul 2025
CSI Driver for dynamic provisioning of Persistent Local Volumes for Kubernetes using ZFS.
Contributions:34 releases, 67 PRs, 289 pushes in 4 years 2 months
provisioningvolumesdata-protectionnaslvm
Abhinandan-Purkait/openebsctl
Apr 2021 - Sep 2021
OpenebsCTL is a plugin for kubectl. It allows users to fetch details of their OpenEBS storage components.
Contributions:12 releases, 188 pushes, 71 branches in 4 months
kubectlkubernetesstoragedetailsfetch
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