Jiffin Thottan
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Kerala, India
Summary
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Top SchoolJiffin Thottan is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years at Red Hat, specializing in distributed storage and Kubernetes-native object storage (Ceph RGW) and operator integrations (Rook). He began in NFS and GlusterFS work, later driving RGW features like Vault KMS integration, client TLS, and read-through object restoration while also improving logging, automation, and release packaging. Comfortable across backend development, DevOps, and operator metrics, he has added monitoring hooks in the RHOCS operator and contributed production-facing fixes in widely used projects such as GlusterFS and Ceph. A regular conference presenter (FOSDEM, Storage Developer Conference, OSS/ LinuxCon, VAULT), he combines deep debugging and customer-focused support with design-level feature delivery. Based in Kerala, India, he brings a pragmatic open-source mindset—shipping robust storage components that bridge Kubernetes orchestration and secure object storage.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
sslc, Science, sslc, Science at don bosco hss mannuthyHigher Secondary Education, Computer Science, A+, Higher Secondary Education, Computer Science, A+ at St. Thomas Thope Higher Secondary SchoolBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at college of engineering trivandrum
Hindi, Malayalam
Github Skills (36)
api-rest10
kubernetes10
glusterfs10
filesystem10
c-language10
api-design10
restful-api10
nfs10
storage10
distributed-systems10
object-storage10
c-programming10
c1110
c1710
go10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
gluster/glusterfs
Oct 2014 - Nov 2019
Gluster Filesystem : Build your distributed storage in minutes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 246 commits, 1 PR in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jiffin focused on enhancing the GlusterFS backend, specifically related to NFS and storage management features. They addressed issues with NFS over RDMA and symlink handling, improving directory mounting and export functionality. The contributions include implementing anonymous file descriptor support for improved I/O operations, modifying the trash translator, and fixing bugs related to the NFS-Ganesha export configuration. They also modified the systemd scripts used in the build process.
erasure-codingstoragepersistent-storagedistributed-storagefuse-filesystem
rook/rook
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
Storage Orchestration for Kubernetes
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:587 reviews, 161 commits, 122 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jiffin contributed significantly to the object store functionality within the Rook/Rook project, focusing on Ceph integration and bucket operations. Their work involved implementing and modifying bucket policies, including changes to principal formats and adding missing actions. They also addressed quota limitations, incorporated code to integrate the Ceph group ID, and made substantial updates to the object store user and bucket handling logic. Furthermore, the user added testing for the object store.
etcddata-protectionorchestrationdockerceph
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