Nikhilkumar Shelke
Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolNikhilkumar Shelke is a software engineer with 7+ years of experience building enterprise-grade products in C, C++, C#, .NET and Python across Windows and Linux. He has deep systems-level knowledge—researching Windows internals, SMB/CIFS file sharing and file-locking techniques—and applies that expertise to storage and file-system work. His contributions to the widely used Ceph project include implementing and testing CephFS volume and snapshot features and improving mount utilities and metadata inspection commands. Nikhilkumar has shipped features and performed QA at scale across companies like Microsoft, Red Hat and Veritas, demonstrating an ability to bridge backend engineering and reliability testing. Strongly interested in data structures and algorithms, he favors optimized, pragmatic solutions to complex problems. Based in Pune, he combines low-level debugging skills (gdb, winDBG, OllyDbg) with modern tooling (Git, Jira, VS Code) to deliver robust storage and system software.
4 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at GOVERNMENT COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, JALGAON.
Github Skills (21)
filesystem10
python10
testing10
cephfs10
ceph10
command-line-interface9
command-line9
cli9
documentation8
c178
c118
scripting7
script7
sh7
shell7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ceph/ceph
Oct 2021 - Aug 2022
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Backend Developer & QA EngineerContributions:264 reviews, 82 commits, 43 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Nikhilkumar primarily contributed to the Ceph project by implementing and testing features related to the CephFS file system, volume, and snapshot functionality. They fixed bugs in the `mount.ceph` utility, enhancing its capabilities with options for fake mounts and more robust parsing. They also added new commands for managing and inspecting subvolume and snapshot metadata, demonstrating a focus on usability and feature expansion. Extensive QA work was also done around testing the CephFS performance statistics command and adding tests for the volume metadata feature.
fusefile-storagecephstorageopenebs
nmshelke/ceph
Nov 2021 - Aug 2022
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Contributions:278 pushes, 81 branches in 9 months
zeroblob-storagefile-storagentfsazure-blob-storage
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