Pawan Sharma
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolPawan Sharma is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in resilient, high-availability storage systems for cloud-native workloads. Currently at Microsoft, he designs and implements replication and rebuild infrastructure for Azure container storage, building on a track record of architecting local PV storage engines (zfs, lvm, device-localpv) and node-disk-manager for OpenEBS. His background includes deep ZFS expertise—designing fast resilvering and ZFS-based storage on FreeBSD—and production experience in high-throughput, event-driven systems at Adap.tv and Citrix. Pawan combines low-level systems engineering with Kubernetes-native storage architecture, often bridging kernel-adjacent storage concepts into cloud platforms. Colocated in Bengaluru, he brings a proven ability to turn complex data-integrity and replication requirements into scalable, open-source-driven solutions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech Computer Science, B.Tech Computer Science at MNNIT
Github Skills (82)
backup10
disaster-recovery10
zfs10
cri-o10
cloud-native10
serve10
migrate10
k8s10
glusterfs10
storage-engine10
volumes10
architecture10
openebs10
lvm10
provisioning10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pawanpraka1/libcstor
Jun 2019 - Mar 2022
CAS Data Engine - Library to serve IOs on uZFS with synchronous replication, snapshots and clones
Contributions:5 releases, 37 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 9 months
serveclonessnapshotsdata-enginedatabase
pawanpraka1/zfs
Aug 2018 - Mar 2022
ZFS on Linux - the official OpenZFS implementation for Linux.
Contributions:169 pushes, 55 branches, 4 tags in 3 years 7 months
openzfslinuxzfsinitramfsluks
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