Rakshith R
Software Engineer at IBM
Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolRakshith R is a software engineer with 8 years of experience building performant full-stack web applications and cloud-native storage integrations, currently focused on progressive web apps and backend reliability. He is an active open-source maintainer on high-profile projects like Ceph CSI, CSI-Addons and Rook, where his contributions span NFS support, snapshot/clone workflows, encryption key rotation, and significant performance and reliability improvements. At IBM and Red Hat he led releases, cross-team scrums, and public talks (Cephalocon 2023, Ceph Days India 2023), and delivered a Read Affinity feature that markedly improved IOPS and latency while cutting customer costs. Comfortable across DevOps, operator configuration, and storage orchestration, he combines hands-on coding with release leadership and community stewardship. A high-achieving alumnus of Ramaiah Institute of Technology, he brings both academic rigor and a knack for translating complex distributed-storage problems into production-safe solutions.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, 9.34, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, 9.34 at Ramaiah Institute Of Technology95.5, 95.5 at St.Mary's Public School91, 91 at Narayana PU college
Github Skills (23)
kubernetes10
develop10
storage10
automation10
go10
openshift10
kubernetes-pods10
ceph10
container-storage-interface10
automations10
devops10
encryption10
csi10
operator10
cicd9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ceph/ceph-csi
Mar 2021 - Nov 2022
CSI driver for Ceph
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 releases, 1303 reviews, 214 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Rakshith primarily contributed to the Ceph CSI driver, specifically focusing on features and bug fixes related to NFS volume management and snapshot/clone operations. The commits demonstrate the implementation of functionalities such as PVC-PVC cloning and snapshot-restore chains. They also involved improvements in the reliability of image deletion processes and the addition of features to support volume encryption with user-provided secrets by updating the KMIP. Furthermore, the user made modifications to improve the performance of existing code and ensured backward compatibility with earlier versions.
cephfscephcsi-driverkubernetescsi
rook/rook
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Storage Orchestration for Kubernetes
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:276 reviews, 88 commits, 47 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Rakshith primarily focused on enhancing the Ceph CSI driver within the Rook project, with significant contributions to its functionality and stability. Their work included adding options to configure host networking for CSI plugin pods and updating snapshot APIs. They also implemented various features and fixes, such as initializing RBD block pools after creation, improving error handling, and introducing key rotation cron jobs. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the CSI driver to enhance the flexibility and functionality of the storage orchestration for Kubernetes.
etcddata-protectionorchestrationdockerceph
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