Mallesh Koti is a Staff Engineer with 10 years of experience in embedded systems, firmware validation and test automation, currently driving engineering at Micron Technology after a multi-year staff role at Western Digital. He began as an embedded developer and moved into firmware validation and large-scale test engineering, bringing deep practical knowledge of storage and virtualization test suites. Mallesh has hands-on QA and automation contributions to notable open-source projects like tp-libvirt, where he fixed flaky tests, eliminated external dependencies, and stabilized timing-related failures. Based in Bengaluru, he combines an Engineer's Degree in Electronics and Communication with a pragmatic focus on reliability, repeatable test infrastructure and cross-team collaboration. Colleagues know him for tracking down elusive timing and dependency issues that cause intermittent failures in complex CI environments.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's Degree, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Engineer's Degree, Electronics and Communication Engineering at Basaveshwar engineering college, Bagalkot
Test Provider for Libvirt and related virtualization backends
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:7 commits, 9 PRs, 9 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Mallesh focused on enhancing the test suite for the `tp-libvirt` repository. Their contributions include fixing existing test failures, adding time delays to address timing issues in test execution, and resolving dependency problems to ensure tests can successfully run. The user also removed dependencies on external tools.
Test Provider for Libvirt and related virtualization backends
Contributions:25 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 4 months
vmsproviderlibvirtbackendsvirtio
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Mallesh Koti - Staff Engineer at Micron Technology