Ardalan Kangarlou
Distinguished Engineer at NetApp
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolArdalan Kangarlou is a Distinguished Engineer with 11 years of experience architecting cloud-native storage and distributed systems, currently leading Google Cloud NetApp Volumes. He has a deep systems background spanning Docker, Kubernetes, network virtualization, Xen, and Linux, and is a prolific Golang engineer focused on production-grade storage orchestration. As creator and long-time maintainer of NetApp Trident, he helped pioneer external provisioners for Kubernetes and implemented robust installer, RBAC, and deployment tooling used widely in containerized storage. At NetApp he progressed from research in the Office of the CTO to technical lead roles, blending hands-on development with product-facing architecture. Based in Raleigh, NC, he brings PhD-level rigor to pragmatic engineering, often surfacing subtle reliability improvements—like launcher rewrites and large-SVM handling—that materially reduce operational failure modes.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Purdue University
Github Skills (15)
netapp10
storage10
kubernetes10
go10
devops10
containerization10
kubernetes-pods10
dockers9
automation9
automations9
bash9
docker9
api8
yaml8
apidoc8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NetApp/trident
Dec 2016 - Jan 2019
Storage orchestrator for containers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:57 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Ardalan primarily contributed to the NetApp Trident project by implementing features related to storage management for containers. They added support for retrieving large numbers of SVMs and aggregates, replaced an old package with `jq` for broader compatibility, and fixed a minor bug in error handling. They also worked on the Trident launcher, rewriting it to better handle failures, reporting, and user arguments. Furthermore, they modified the installer script to support RBAC, the deployment of Trident in different namespaces, and added scripts to update or roll back containers in the deployment.
containersnetapp-publicorchestratorazure-blob-storagedocker
kangarlou/kangarlou.github.io
Aug 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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