Rinku Kothiya
Sr. Staff Software Engineer at NGX Storage
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolRinku Kothiya is a Sr. Staff Software Engineer with 18+ years of deep expertise in file systems, storage and high-performance I/O on Linux and AIX, currently building a scale-out NVMe-oF storage platform in Pune. He has a strong track record across enterprise teams at NGX Storage, Seagate, Red Hat and IBM, delivering features, performance tuning, and CI/CD automation for distributed object and NAS systems like Cortx-Motr and SONAS. Skilled in C systems programming and Python-driven test/DevOps automation, he combines low-level kernel and RDMA work with higher-level pipeline design and regression testing. Rinku also leverages emerging AI tooling such as LangChain to drive intelligent automation around observability and performance analysis, including flame-graph-driven bottleneck hunts. Known for solving complex user/kernel space issues with tools like perf, crash and gdb, he blends hands-on debugging with release management and automation ownership. Colleagues value his ability to translate intricate storage internals into reliable, scalable production systems.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.E.Computers, B.E.Computers at North Maharashtra University
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (57)
glusterfs10
filesystem10
mass10
targeting10
high-availability10
storage10
linux10
capacity10
distributed-systems10
persistent-storage10
rsync10
gossip10
golang10
configurations10
replication10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gluster/gluster-performance-test-suite
Sep 2020 - Jul 2021
Setup and run perfromance test on glusterfs
Contributions:2 reviews, 76 PRs, 48 pushes in 10 months
perfromancekubernetesglusterfs
rkothiya/glusterfs
Oct 2020 - Jun 2021
Gluster Filesystem : Build your storage in minutes
Contributions:113 pushes, 37 branches, 7 tags in 8 months
diskglusterglusterfscloud-storagefilesystem
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