Rajanikant Chirmade is a seasoned engineering leader with 24+ years building distributed systems, storage platforms, and cloud appliances, currently leading software engineering at Couchbase. He’s known for architecting resilient, high-performance storage and private-cloud PaaS features—non-disruptive upgrades, containerized lifecycle management, RDMA-backed low-latency data paths, and erasure-coded resiliency for exascale object stores. A hands-on mentor and team builder, he has repeatedly turned customer escalations into prioritized platform improvements and has led founding-level development for projects like Seagate’s CORTX/Mero. His background spans deep kernel and database internals through to modern microservices and container platforms, bridging long-term system reliability with pragmatic delivery. Based in Bengaluru, he combines product-focused technical leadership with a persistent drive to instrument and analyze systems for continuous operational improvement.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Technology, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Technology at Mumbai University
CORTX ha (High-Availability) is responsible for ensuring that CORTX Solution is available in case of any hardware component or software service failures. It takes care of failover/ failback control flow for affected services and stabilizes them across CORTX cluster.
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Rajanikant Chirmade - Senior Manager, Software Engineering at Couchbase