Bharata Rao
Principal Member Of Technical Staff at AMD
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolBharata Rao is a Principal Member of Technical Staff with nearly 26 years of experience specializing in Linux kernel, virtualization (KVM/QEMU) and storage subsystems, currently driving low-level platform work at AMD from Bengaluru. He has deep, hands-on expertise across x86, PowerPC and embedded ARM, having led teams integrating distributed filesystems (GlusterFS) with KVM/QEMU, libvirt and cloud stacks and delivered CPU/memory hotplug and resource-management features for PowerKVM. His contributions span kernel scheduler and cgroup enhancements—improving cpuacct accounting, adding cgroup scheduler statistics and hard limits—and earlier work on dynamic probes, crash-dump tooling and union/stackable filesystem ideas. Comfortable working in both user space and kernel domains, he combines technical leadership with a pragmatic open-source workflow and a track record of upstreaming complex patches. A less obvious strength is his long tenure bridging research-quality prototypes (bootloader/kernel ports, OpenSSI work) into production-grade solutions across global teams.
26 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Software Systems, Master of Science (MS), Software Systems at Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceBachelor of Engineering (BE) from NIE, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) from NIE, Electronics and Communication Engineering at Mysore University
English, Kannada, Sanskrit
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Github Skills (5)
c1710
c1110
linux-kernel10
cgroups10
scheduler10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jonsmirl/mpc5200
Aug 2008 - Jan 2011
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Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Bharata primarily contributed to the Linux kernel, focusing on the scheduler and cgroup subsystems. Their work included enhancing the `/proc/sched_debug` output to include group statistics, optimizing CPU time accounting within the cpuacct controller, and fixing potential race conditions related to RCU usage in the scheduler. Furthermore, the user added new statistics for user and system time consumed by tasks within cgroups.
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