Rakesh Pandit is a Principal Engineer with 16 years of experience specializing in filesystems and low-level storage software, currently leading engineering efforts at Tuxera from Hämeenlinna, Finland. His long tenure at Tuxera—progressing from Release Engineer to Principal Engineer—reflects deep expertise in productionizing robust storage solutions and release workflows. Earlier roles at Red Hat and as a Fedora maintainer underscore strong open-source credentials and systems-level craftsmanship. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Helsinki and a B.Tech from NIT Hamirpur, combining formal research training with pragmatic product delivery. Colleagues rely on him for architectural clarity in complex I/O and file-system integration projects, and his personal site hints at an ongoing, focused interest in filesystem internals.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at National Institute of Technology Hamirpur
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Helsinki
The linux kernel source repository for Open-Channel SSDs
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