Ramana Raja
Senior Software Engineer at IBM
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRamana Raja is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in distributed storage systems, currently working on Ceph RBD mirroring at IBM. He has deep open-source credentials from long tenures at Red Hat integrating CephFS and GlusterFS with OpenStack Manila and maintaining related CI pipelines. On GitHub he contributes to the high-profile Ceph project, adding core CephFS and RBD features such as quota support, subvolume authorization, and filesystem rename commands. Based in Old Toronto, he blends systems-level backend development with practical CI and testing improvements that make large storage clusters more reliable and maintainable. His background in electrical and electronics engineering gives him a hardware-aware perspective on storage performance and reliability. Colleagues describe him as a steady contributor who elevates complex distributed storage projects through focused, pragmatic improvements.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli
English
Github Skills (13)
blockdevice10
data-storage10
filesystem10
distributed-systems10
c-language10
distributed-file-system10
cprogramming-language10
cephfs10
python9
system-design9
automations8
automation8
testing8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ceph/ceph
Apr 2016 - Dec 2022
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:939 reviews, 253 commits, 205 PRs in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Ramana primarily contributed to the Ceph distributed storage platform by implementing and modifying core functionality related to the CephFS file system and the RBD (RADOS Block Device). Their work included adding exceptions, implementing new features for quotas, and enhancing the authorization process for subvolumes. Additionally, the user refactored tests for volumes, enabling improved testing flexibility, and fixed arguments in the test configuration files. The user also added a new command related to file system renaming functionality and enabled the thrashing in a multifs environment.
fusefile-storagecephstorageopenebs
ajarr/ceph
Apr 2016 - Apr 2025
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Contributions:462 pushes, 337 branches, 13 comments in 9 years 1 month
file-storagecephcloud-storagedatabasestorage
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