Nilesh Bhosale
Senior Software Architect at IBM
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolNilesh Bhosale is a Senior Software Architect with 12+ years driving storage and cloud innovations at IBM, leading the architecture and development of IBM Spectrum Scale and as a founder architect of IBM Spectrum Discover. He blends systems-level expertise in C/C++, Go, and Python with cloud-native platforms—Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, OpenStack Cinder/Manila—and has a strong track record integrating cognitive/AI capabilities into storage products. Nilesh is a prolific inventor (16 granted patents, 26 applications) and a visible technical evangelist who has presented at OpenStack and IBM global events. His open-source contributions include substantive enhancements to OpenStack Cinder’s NAS driver, improving cloning, snapshots, and security. Based in Pune, he pairs hands-on engineering with cross-functional leadership to modernize hybrid-cloud infrastructure for enterprise-scale unstructured data.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
M.Tech., Computational Science, M.Tech., Computational Science at Indian Institute of ScienceShivaji University
Github Skills (6)
cinder10
management10
openstack10
volumes10
python10
nfs9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/cinder
Dec 2013 - Jan 2015
OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Nilesh contributed significantly to the IBM NAS volume driver, focusing on enhancing its functionality and addressing existing issues. They implemented features related to volume cloning, snapshot creation, and volume extension. The contributions also involved refactoring the code to remove unnecessary permissions settings, enhancing security and efficiency. Additionally, the user fixed issues related to glance image snapshots and corrected the driver volume type.
block-storageopenstack
nilesh-bhosale/storage-protect-galaxy
Apr 2025 - Nov 2025
This repository contains best-practice, solution assets, blueprints, scripts, and tools for the user-community that is using Storage Protect suites of products. Use this repository to collaborate with developer, partner & the larger community - involved in solutioning / working with the IBM Storage Protect & IBM Storage Defender suite of products.
Contributions:4 reviews, 4 PRs, 24 pushes in 7 months
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