Malay Parida
Software Engineer (Backend Developer) at IBM
Balasore, Odisha, India
Summary
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Top SchoolMalay Parida is a backend software engineer with 7 years of experience and 3+ years focused on Go, container-native architectures, Kubernetes operators, and Ceph-based storage. At Red Hat and now IBM Storage he has driven production features for OpenShift Data Foundation and IBM Fusion—authoring encryption-in-transit, resource profiles, non-replicated pools, and storageClass fixes while resolving hundreds of critical bugs and owning component design and triage. A pragmatic open-source contributor, he’s improved the ocs-operator and CI workflows, cutting costs and runtime while adding operator-level automation and debugging features. Known for mentoring teammates and creating onboarding guides, he combines deep systems knowledge with a hands-on approach to reliability and performance. Based in Balasore, India, he pairs strong academic results with a knack for squeezing operational inefficiencies out of large cloud-native storage stacks.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science & Engineering, 9.19 CGPA, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science & Engineering, 9.19 CGPA at Veer Surendra Sai University Of Technology ( Formerly UCE ), BurlaIntermediate In Science, 72.67%, Intermediate In Science, 72.67% at Bhadrak Junior College, BhadrakMatriculation, 94.17%, Matriculation, 94.17% at Bhadrak Zilla School, Bhadrak
English, Hindi, Odia
Github Skills (16)
ceph10
k8s-operator10
kubernetes10
go10
openshift10
operator-sdk10
kubernetes-pods10
operator10
cicd9
yaml9
automation9
automations9
api8
docker8
dockers8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
red-hat-storage/ocs-operator
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Operator for RHOCS
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:566 reviews, 93 commits, 346 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Malay Kumar Parida primarily contributed to the backend and infrastructure aspects of the RHOCS operator. Their work included refactoring and moving functions within the API, autogenerating CSV changes for the operator, and adding new features like enabling Ceph Non-Resilient pools. They also focused on enhancing the deployment process by adding default configurations, addressing image-related issues, and integrating with the Kubernetes ecosystem for aspects like security context. Furthermore, they contributed to the automated configuration of verbose logging for debugging purposes.
operator
malayparida2000/release
May 2022 - Jun 2026
Release tooling for OpenShift
Contributions:160 pushes, 71 branches in 4 years 1 month
kubernetesopenshifttooling
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