Harikrishna Patnala
Head Of Roadmap Engineering at Apache CloudStack
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Top SchoolHarikrishna Patnala is a Head of Roadmap Engineering with 10 years of experience building and leading cloud infrastructure and IaaS-focused engineering teams. He combines deep backend expertise in Linux, Apache, data structures and algorithms with hands-on contributions to Apache CloudStack—improving volume migration, datastore synchronization, and storage policy integration. A former Lead Software Engineer and Senior Product Engineer, he has a proven track record of turning complex storage and migration challenges into robust platform features. As an Apache CloudStack PMC member and long-time committer, he blends open-source stewardship with product roadmap leadership. Trained with an M.Tech. in Computer Science from IIT Madras, he is based in Hyderabad and known for translating low-level systems improvements into customer-facing reliability gains.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
English, Hindi, Telugu
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Github Skills (11)
javas10
storage10
vmware10
backend10
back-end-development10
java10
kvm9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/cloudstack
Sep 2017 - Dec 2022
Apache CloudStack is an opensource Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:565 reviews, 250 commits, 167 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Harikrishna primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the Apache CloudStack IaaS platform. Their work focused on improving the platform's affinity group and volume handling by addressing issues in volume migration, migration of root volume in VVol datastore, and disk offering changes. They also modified the code to enhance error handling during volume operations and updated the system to handle datastore cluster synchronization. Moreover, the user has made updates to integrate the storage policies in the system.
pythonapache-cloudstackxcp-nghostingcloud-computing
apache/cloudstack-terraform-provider
Sep 2021 - Jun 2022
CloudStack Terraform Provider
Contributions:2 releases, 9 reviews, 19 commits in 8 months
providerconfluent-cloudterraform-modulescloudstackinfrastructure-as-code
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