Haris Iqbal is a systems-focused engineering leader with 11 years of experience and over 9 years driving full lifecycle system development in storage and kernel domains. As Head of Cloud Storage Development Kernel at IONOS and a long-standing Linux kernel developer, he leads teams building resilient, high-performance cloud storage subsystems. His background includes firmware and SAN array development at Dell EMC, where he worked on Compellent and EqualLogic products and led security-focused enhancements in low-level storage stacks. He has hands-on experience recovering complex distributed operations—evident from his GSoC work on QEMU postcopy migration recovery—and brings that rigor to production cloud services. Based in Berlin, he blends deep kernel expertise with pragmatic leadership to ship reliable storage infrastructure at scale. Trained with an M.Tech from NIT Karnataka, he pairs strong academic grounding with practical, production-grade systems engineering.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Higher Secondary - ( XII ), Science, Higher Secondary - ( XII ), Science at Seventh Day Adventist Day School, Kolkata
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology at Academy of Technology
Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Information Technology, 9.42, Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Information Technology, 9.42 at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
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Haris Iqbal - Head Of Cloud Storage Development Kernel at IONOS