Gaurav Yadav is a Senior Software Engineer with 9 years of experience building cloud data-movement and scale-out storage systems, currently driving cloud storage optimizations at Microsoft from Bengaluru. He has deep low-level Linux and distributed file system expertise honed at Nutanix, Red Hat and Dell EMC, and has contributed backend fixes and stability improvements to the widely used GlusterFS project. His work spans storage management, REST and SMI-S interfaces, and performance-focused design for deduplication and tiering, with a Dell Champions Award recognizing his impact. Gaurav combines hands-on systems engineering with pragmatic design discussions for next-gen distributed storage, and he holds an executive PG certificate in cloud computing that complements his production experience.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Executive PG Programme in Software Development, Cloud Computing, Executive PG Programme in Software Development, Cloud Computing at International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology at IMS Enginnering College Ghaziabad(UPTU)
Gluster Filesystem : Build your distributed storage in minutes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:48 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Gaurav primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the GlusterFS project, focusing on bug fixes and enhancements to the Glusterd management daemon. Their work involved resolving issues related to volume options, peer detachment, and brick removal, as well as improving error messaging. The user also implemented validations and checks to improve the stability and reliability of the GlusterFS cluster management system.
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Gaurav Yadav - Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft