Amar Tumballi
Chief Technology Officer at Dhiway
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolAmar Tumballi is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with two decades of experience building distributed storage and trust infrastructure, currently steering Dhiway’s vision for an Open Trust Infrastructure that enables privacy-preserving, consent-driven data transactions at population scale. He cut his teeth on GlusterFS over 16 years, contributing system-level fixes for self-healing and data consistency, and guided the project through growth and two acquisitions that shaped his product and community instincts. As a founder and engineering lead he moves quickly from concept to prototype across backend, mobile, and web stacks, and has repeatedly scaled teams and platforms for real-world governance and ledger-based use cases. His recent focus spans identity, verifiable credentials, and token-less ledger work (CORD.Network), blending decentralized tech with pragmatic enterprise integrations like Beckn/ONDC. Amar is an active open-source maintainer (Gluster, Kadalu) who pairs deep systems expertise with hands-on delivery and a knack for keeping legacy storage relevant in modern cloud-native environments. Based in Bengaluru, he combines startup grit with a track record of shipping auditable, production-ready solutions that solve large-scale data flow problems.
20 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BE CS, BE CS at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering (SJCE), Mysore12th, 12th at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Gajanur, ShimogaBE Computer Science, BE Computer Science at Shri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysore
Kannada, English, Hindi, Spanish
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Github Skills (10)
c1710
filesystem10
c1110
debug9
distributed-systems9
debugging9
multithreading8
performance-optimization8
android6
locale6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
gluster/glusterfs
Jul 2006 - Oct 2022
Gluster Filesystem : Build your distributed storage in minutes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:622 reviews, 2514 commits, 273 PRs in 16 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Amar primarily focused on addressing bugs and implementing changes related to file system features. Their contributions involved code modifications in core components of GlusterFS, including the Unify and Stripe translators, indicating involvement in the back-end and system-level logic. The user made enhancements in the self-healing mechanisms within Unify and addressed data consistency problems in the Stripe translator. Their work touched file system structure and storage architecture, which implies experience with relevant system-level tools.
erasure-codingstoragepersistent-storagedistributed-storagefuse-filesystem
gluster/glusterfs-perf
Feb 2019 - Jun 2019
Ansible roles and tools to create a test environment and run performance tests
Contributions:1 release, 31 commits, 48 PRs in 4 months
ansible-rolestestingansibleperformance-teststest-environment
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