Sachin Prabhu
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSachin Prabhu is a Senior Software Engineer with 26 years of experience specializing in kernel and network filesystems, currently working on NFS and CIFS within Red Hat’s Filesystems group. A Red Hat Certified Architect, he bridges upstream kernel development and RHEL maintenance, and previously served as the interface between support and engineering for complex kernel/NFS issues. Sachin contributes to notable open-source storage work such as Rook—improving NFS functionality and Kerberos integration for Kubernetes storage orchestration. Based in Milton Keynes, he combines deep systems-level expertise with practical customer-facing troubleshooting skills. His background spans system administration, PHP web development, and a master’s in software engineering, giving him a rare blend of low-level kernel knowledge and applied software design.
26 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Software Engineering, Master’s Degree, Software Engineering at The Open UniversityHSC, Science, HSC, Science at University of MumbaiBE, Mechanical, BE, Mechanical at Manipal Institute of TechnologyHoly Family High SchoolBE, Mechanical Engineering, BE, Mechanical Engineering at Mangalore University
Github Skills (18)
kubernetes10
filesystem10
kerberos10
nfs10
storage10
c1110
linux-kernel10
c1710
go10
kubernetes-pods10
ceph10
dockers9
networking9
docker9
yaml8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rook/rook
Mar 2023 - Jul 2023
Storage Orchestration for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 4 PRs, 9 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Sachin primarily focused on enhancing the NFS service within the Rook/Rook project. Their contributions involved resolving DNS lookup issues, configuring local file lookups, and setting the correct Kerberos domain in the `/etc/idmapd.conf` file. They also modified the SSSD sidecar configuration, adding configuration for Kerberos authentication to the SSSD container, and fixed a null pointer dereference issue related to Kerberos setup. These changes improved the functionality and security of NFS within the Kubernetes-based storage orchestration system.
etcddata-protectionorchestrationdockerceph
spuiuk/samba
Jun 2019 - Jun 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 51 branches in 5 years
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