Ravindra Kumar is a Staff Engineer based in Palo Alto with over a decade of experience building enterprise storage and systems software. He has a long tenure spanning Novell, NetApp, and VMware, bringing deep domain expertise in large-scale storage and infrastructure engineering. Trained at IIT Madras (MTech CS) and holding a BTech in Electrical Engineering, he blends rigorous academic foundations with hands-on product development. Known for steady progression into technical leadership, he focuses on reliable, production-grade systems and architecture. Though not highly visible on GitHub, his career reflects sustained impact within major storage vendors and a knack for solving hard systems problems that require cross-team coordination.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
BTech, Electrical Engineering, BTech, Electrical Engineering at G. B. Pant University Of Agriculture & Technology
Official repository of VMware open-vm-tools project
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 7 months
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