Kashyap Chamarthy
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Ghent Metropolitan Area Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolKashyap Chamarthy is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of experience, currently driving RISC-V enablement for Fedora and Red Hat distributions while continuing a long tenure in virtualization and cloud infrastructure. He has deep hands-on expertise integrating Linux virtualization stacks (KVM, QEMU, libvirt) into OpenStack, contributing to critical projects like Nova and DevStack where he improved stability, security, and operational tooling. His work blends backend engineering and DevOps—refactoring drivers, optimizing storage cache modes, and modernizing build infrastructure—demonstrating a strong grasp of system internals and production reliability. Based in the Ghent area, he pairs an electronics and communications background with practical open source stewardship, including notable upstream changes that cleaned up legacy distro support and improved debugging of nova-compute. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, low-level solutions that bridge upstream cloud projects and enterprise Linux distributions.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Electronics and Communications Engineering, BE, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Osmania University
Github Skills (17)
libvirt10
python10
qemu10
configuration-management10
linux10
bash10
openstack10
pandoc10
virtualization10
devops10
documentation10
scripting9
system-administration8
emulation8
performance-optimization8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/nova
Jan 2015 - Jul 2022
OpenStack Compute (Nova). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:83 commits in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Kashyap primarily contributed to the libvirt driver within the OpenStack Nova compute service, focusing on improving stability, performance, and security. Their work involved refactoring code, optimizing cache modes for various storage backends, and deprecating/removing legacy APIs and features. They also addressed security vulnerabilities and enhanced documentation, showing a strong understanding of system internals and operational best practices.
novaopendevopenstackcompute
openstack/devstack
Jun 2014 - Feb 2019
System for quickly installing an OpenStack cloud from upstream git for testing and development. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:14 commits in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Kashyap primarily contributed to the project's infrastructure and build processes by removing support for outdated operating system versions, which included Fedora 19, 20, 21, and 22. They updated the supported distribution list in the `stack.sh` script, adjusted related configuration files and documentation. The user also implemented changes to handle specific system configurations and dependencies for supported Linux distributions. Additionally, the user updated the worlddump utility to use `SIGUSR2` instead of `SIGUSR1` to trigger the generation of a Guru Meditation Report for the nova-compute process.
installingtestinginfrastructureopenshiftupstream
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