Rafi Kc
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolRafi Kc is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience focused on storage systems and distributed filesystems, currently contributing to Red Hat’s GlusterFS project from Bengaluru. He specializes in back-end development for high‑availability storage, with notable work fixing RDMA-related mount hangs, crash scenarios, and memory management issues that improved GlusterFS stability under network delays. Having progressed through roles at Red Hat from Associate to Senior Engineer, he combines deep product knowledge of Red Hat Storage with practical experience from earlier roles at CommVault and as a web developer. An active open-source contributor, Rafi prefers tackling low-level concurrency and transport bugs that are easy to miss but critical in production, demonstrating a patient, systems-oriented approach to reliability.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PPMHSS Kottukkara KondottyBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at College of Engineering, Trivandrum
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Github Skills (7)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gluster/glusterfs
Sep 2014 - Sep 2022
Gluster Filesystem : Build your distributed storage in minutes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 511 commits, 23 PRs in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Rafi primarily contributed to the Gluster Filesystem project by addressing issues related to Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) functionality. Their work involved fixing bugs that caused mount hangs and crashes in the RDMA transport, particularly concerning the handling of disconnect events and ensuring correct behavior during client-server communication. The contributions involved modifying the code to address the issues caused by delays in network and the correct handling of the shared resource for the memory. This also involved improvements in the volume status command for tiering volume and memory management.
erasure-codingstoragepersistent-storagedistributed-storagefuse-filesystem
rafikc30/glusterfs
Oct 2020 - Feb 2025
Gluster Filesystem : Build your storage in minutes
Contributions:49 pushes, 25 branches in 4 years 4 months
glustergridfsglusterfscloud-storagefilesystem
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