Ankush Behl
Engineering Manager - Ceph Storage at IBM
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolAnkush Behl is an engineering manager with 10 years of experience leading storage and platform teams, currently heading Ceph Storage engineering at IBM after several leadership roles at Red Hat. He combines full-stack development chops—contributing to prominent open-source projects like Ceph and the OpenShift console—with product-minded delivery, mentoring, and hiring experience. His work spans frontend improvements to cluster UIs and backend dashboard enhancements, notably improving Ceph dashboard usability and OpenShift’s storage console. Based in Bengaluru, he brings deep expertise in Kubernetes/OpenShift ecosystems, storage telemetry, and operator-based deployments. A former graphic designer turned software engineer, he blends a strong technical foundation with an eye for user-facing detail.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Computer Science, Diploma, Computer Science at Maharishi Markandeshwar University, Mullana10th, 10th at S.A Jain Senior model school
English, Hindi, Punjabi
Github Skills (29)
javascript10
dashboard10
ui-components10
css10
user-interface10
openshift10
angularjs10
html10
ceph10
react10
kubernetes9
ui-design9
typescript9
typescript-types9
kubernetes-pods9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/console
Nov 2018 - Jan 2021
OpenShift Cluster Console UI
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:274 reviews, 69 commits, 77 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ankush's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the OpenShift Cluster Console UI. They addressed alignment issues within daemon-set workloads and pod pages, and added volume information for attached storage. The user implemented new UI components for mounted volumes and integrated them into various components, including deployments, replication controllers, and replica sets. These changes directly improved the display and functionality of the console interface.
openshiftopenshift-origin
ceph/ceph
Apr 2023 - May 2026
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:528 reviews, 53 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ankush primarily focused on enhancing the Ceph dashboard, addressing both frontend and backend aspects. Their contributions involved refactoring the Object Gateway section, creating a default block pool, improving the cluster status display, and adding a telemetry link. Furthermore, the user cleaned up the RGW details card and fixed CephFS snapshot and quota list functionalities. Their work demonstrates a focus on improving the user interface, fixing bugs, and enhancing the dashboard's overall usability.
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