Rohit Jnagal
Distinguished Engineer at Google
California, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolRohit Jnagal is a Distinguished Engineer with 12+ years of systems and infrastructure expertise, currently leading Compute & AI Infrastructure at Google after a recent principal engineering role at Databricks. He has deep kernel- and container-level experience—helping found and shepherd Kubernetes to 1.0 and maintaining core projects like runc, libcontainer, cAdvisor and lmctfy—bringing production-hardened resource isolation, cgroup, and fleet efficiency innovations to hyperscale environments. Rohit’s background spans OS kernel work at Veritas and HP to virtualization and I/O at 3leaf, giving him rare end-to-end fluency from device and kernel internals up through cluster management and cloud efficiency. Known for blending hands-on systems programming with operational rigor, he has driven release and monitoring improvements in widely used open-source projects and led Borg-level efficiency efforts for compute, ML, and cloud platforms.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Stackoverflow
1,192reputation
71kreached
18answers
0questions
linux
top-5%
docker
top-5%
Github Skills (39)
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
c-language10
testing10
command-line-interface10
linux10
containerization10
dockers10
occi10
go10
sys10
kubernetes-pods10
command-line10
system-administration10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
google/cadvisor
Jun 2014 - Sep 2015
Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 330 commits, 246 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Rohit focused on enhancing the cAdvisor project by implementing features to gather and report additional system metrics. Their work included adding version information, including kernel and docker versions, to the system info. They also introduced the collection of disk I/O statistics, expanded the functionality to gather process-related load stats and introduced support for xfs filesystems. Furthermore, they implemented changes to improve the accuracy and presentation of the ps output.
containerscharacteristicsdockeranalyzesperformance
google/lmctfy
Oct 2013 - May 2015
lmctfy is the open source version of Google’s container stack, which provides Linux application containers.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Rohit's contributions primarily involve modifying the command-line interface (CLI) arguments and functionality of the lmctfy project, focusing on container initialization, listing, and management. Their work includes removing assertions, fixing argument counts, and adding support for block I/O controllers and NUMA stats within the memory controller. Additionally, the user integrated support for a custom init command and updated the lmctfy protocol definition.
containersrunclinux-applicationlinuxpodman
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.