Kishan Kavala is a seasoned technology leader and Director of Technology with 15 years of experience designing and delivering cloud-native, serverless platforms and enterprise migrations. He brings deep hands-on expertise from senior engineering roles at Amazon and Citrix and led cloud transformation engagements at AWS ProServe, translating business needs into scalable architectures. At Sciclopes he built a high-throughput financial analytics platform on AWS serverless stacks, emphasizing fault tolerance, security, and CI/CD-driven operational resilience. An active Apache CloudStack committer, he has contributed significant KVM hypervisor and storage integrations to a widely used open-source IaaS project, showing long-standing commitment to infrastructure software. Kishan combines strategic product ownership with coding-level fluency across backend, DevOps, and frontend stacks, enabling rapid feature delivery without sacrificing reliability. Based in Hyderabad and an IIT Kanpur alumnus, he uniquely blends enterprise-scale engineering rigor with open-source stewardship.
Apache CloudStack is an opensource Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:17 reviews, 85 commits, 22 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Kishan primarily focused on enhancing the KVM hypervisor integration within the Apache CloudStack platform. Their contributions include adding support for LXC, addressing issues related to RBD disk management, and implementing improvements for VM migration and maintenance within the KVM environment. They also made changes to enhance the system's handling of storage pools and the deployment of system VMs. Additionally, the user worked on changes related to the UI, specifically for the management server configuration and filtering of pods, clusters, and hosts.
Contributions:51 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 8 months
apache-cloudstackapachecloudcloudstackjava
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Kishan Kavala - Director Of Technology at Sciclopes Technologies Pvt Ltd