Joseph Vazhappilly is a seasoned systems and storage engineer with 9 years of focused experience in storage, data management, observability and multi-cloud systems, currently a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Wind River. He combines deep Linux kernel and device-driver expertise with cloud-native skills—Kubernetes, Docker, microservices and OpenStack—gained through roles at Huawei, ARM and other industry teams. Joseph contributes to open-source infrastructure projects (notably SODA components and the Go-Chassis framework), where he has improved backend, DevOps and driver integrations that bridge storage platforms with Kubernetes and OpenStack. Known for pragmatic system design, he equally tackles low-level kernel subsystems and higher-level distributed service concerns, and often represents the community at conferences. An uncommon strength is his cross-layer fluency: from Android/Linux display and kernel drivers up to cloud-native APIs and performance monitoring.
delfin is the SODA Infrastructure Manager project which provides unified, intelligent and scalable resource management, alert and performance monitoring
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:9 releases, 292 reviews, 133 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily contributed to the development of a Dell EMC VMAX driver, focusing on the integration of storage management features. Their commits involved the implementation of APIs for listing pools, volumes, and host initiators, alongside support for controller and disk resources. They also addressed SSL certificate support and performance metrics collection within the driver, expanding its functionality and enhancing its monitoring capabilities.
SODA Terra Project API module : is an open source implementation of SODA API connecting storage to platforms like Kubernetes, OpenStack, and VMware
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:14 commits, 14 PRs, 1 branch in 7 months
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily focused on back-end improvements and infrastructure setup within the API module. They addressed content-type issues in the Keystone receiver, fixed etcd binary installation, and corrected query parameter handling. Furthermore, the user cleaned up the make files and made changes to the `opensds.sh` script, indicating involvement in build and deployment processes.
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Joseph Vazhappilly - Senior Member Of Technical Staff at Wind River