Ashish Pandey
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAshish Pandey is a Senior Software Engineer based in Bengaluru with over 17 years in software development and 11 years of focused industry experience across enterprise teams at Red Hat, IBM, Wipro, NEC, Aristocrat, and HCL. He specializes in high-performance, distributed systems and has made substantive back-end contributions to the widely used Gluster Filesystem project, particularly enhancing erasure coding, shard handling, and file operation reliability. At Red Hat he continues to apply deep systems-level expertise to storage and infrastructure challenges, blending production-grade engineering with open-source collaboration. His background in embedded systems from CDAC and a B.Tech in Information Technology underpin a pragmatic approach to low-level design and performance tuning. Known for improving core modules and observability, he brings a track record of making complex storage behaviors more robust and debuggable. Colleagues rely on him to bridge legacy constraints and modern distributed storage requirements while contributing upstream to community projects.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology at Uttar Pradesh Technical UniversityDESD, Embedded System and Design, B +, DESD, Embedded System and Design, B + at Advance Computing and Training School, CDAC – PUNE
English
Github Skills (8)
c1710
storage10
glusterfs10
filesystem10
distributed-systems10
c-programming10
c1110
replication10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gluster/glusterfs
Apr 2015 - Mar 2021
Gluster Filesystem : Build your distributed storage in minutes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:71 reviews, 273 commits, 4 PRs in 6 years
Contributions summary:Ashish primarily contributed to the Gluster Filesystem project by modifying core components related to the erasure coding (EC) functionality. Their work focused on enhancing the EC module, with changes involving file system operations, and improvements to handle versioning, size, and configuration of the data. The user also implemented fixes and added functionalities around handling of the shard, improving the logging level, and handling some cases related to client and file operations.
erasure-codingstoragepersistent-storagedistributed-storagefuse-filesystem
aspandey/noobaa-core
Nov 2022 - Mar 2025
NooBaa is a Dynamic Data Gateway for cloud-native, hybrid and multi cloud environments :cloud::rocket:
Contributions:315 pushes, 44 branches in 2 years 4 months
hybrid-cloudawscloudnativemulti-clouddynamic-data
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