Amit Das
Staff Engineer at VMware
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolAmit Das is a Staff Engineer with 13 years of experience focused on Kubernetes developer tooling and cloud-native storage, currently at VMware in Bengaluru. He’s a long-time open source committer and primary maintainer on projects such as OpenEBS (maya), metac, and mayadata-io d-operators, bringing deep expertise in container storage and orchestration. His career blends hands-on systems engineering—designing storage replication, integrations with OpenStack/Kubernetes, and low-latency trading systems—with leadership roles building infrastructure platforms and engineering teams. Amit has led engineering at MayaData and shaped developer-facing platform vision at Jimdo, demonstrating both product sensibility and technical depth. Notably, he combines a background in high-throughput, low-latency systems with a current focus on developer tooling for Kubernetes, a synthesis that helps bridge platform reliability and developer productivity.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Communications Engineering, Distinction with honors, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Communications Engineering, Distinction with honors at National Institute of Science and Technology, BerhampurHigh School, High School at St. Mary's SchoolMathematics, Mathematics at BJB College, Bhubaneswar
English, Hindi, Odia
Github Skills (200)
hackmd10
reconciler10
controller10
abc10
coredns10
scheduling10
reliability-engineering10
zfs10
site-reliability-engineering10
cri-o10
cloud-native10
k8s10
operator10
mesos10
glusterfs10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
openebs/mayaserver
Jan 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:5 releases, 22 PRs, 140 pushes in 8 months
kubernetesstorageopenebspersistencepersistence-storage
AmitKumarDas/Decisions
Dec 2017 - Dec 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 820 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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