Humble Chirammal
R&D Software Engineer 5 at Broadcom Software
India
Summary
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Top SchoolHumble Chirammal is an R&D Software Engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in cloud-native storage and Kubernetes ecosystem engineering, currently at Broadcom. He has been a Kubernetes maintainer and tech lead with deep, production-focused contributions to projects like Kubernetes, Rook, Ceph-CSI, GlusterFS and OpenShift, routinely improving storage drivers, sidecars and API definitions. Known for pragmatic code hygiene—linting, klog migrations, and robust error handling—he balances low-level systems work (Kernel, Gluster/Ceph internals) with orchestration-level design. His background includes long tenures at Red Hat and CNCF stewardship, and he’s the author of "Mastering KVM Virtualization," reflecting a strong virtualization and storage pedigree. Colleagues rely on him to turn subtle storage bugs into maintainable, well-documented fixes that survive large-scale cloud environments.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Cochin University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (54)
dependency-management10
kubernetes10
glusterfs10
filesystem10
container10
debug10
volumes10
apidoc10
back-end-development10
api-design10
iscsi10
testing10
memory-management10
storage10
distributed-systems10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-csi/external-snapshotter
Jan 2019 - Nov 2022
Sidecar container that watches Kubernetes Snapshot CRD objects and triggers CreateSnapshot/DeleteSnapshot against a CSI endpoint.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 38 commits, 37 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Humble primarily contributed to fixing errors and improving code quality within the `external-snapshotter` repository, which is a Kubernetes CSI sidecar. Their commits focused on correcting error variables, resolving golint issues, and updating function details with source code comments. Additionally, they made efforts to remove redundant code blocks, improve error formatting, and migrate from glog to klog, indicating a focus on code maintainability and best practices.
sidecark8s-sig-storagesidecar-containerwatchessnapshots
kubernetes-csi/external-attacher
Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
Sidecar container that watches Kubernetes VolumeAttachment objects and triggers ControllerPublish/Unpublish against a CSI endpoint
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 19 commits, 22 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Humble primarily contributed to the `kubernetes-csi/external-attacher` repository, which involves managing CSI volume attachments. Their work included removing explicit nil error initializations, adding function details, migrating from glog to klog for logging, updating dependencies, and updating API calls. These contributions indicate a focus on code maintenance, improving the codebase, and adapting to changes in Kubernetes and its dependencies.
sidecark8s-sig-storagesidecar-containerwatchescsi-driver
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