Sanil D
Founder, CEO (Business And Technology) at Caze Labs Private Limited
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolSanil D is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and open source leader with over 26 years of experience building cloud, edge, storage and real-time systems and currently founding AI-driven startup Caze Labs. He combines hands-on engineering—evident from backend contributions to SODA projects like Delfin and Strato—with strategic ecosystem roles as Co-Chair of SODA Foundation and TOC member of IOS-MCN, helping shape open data and 5G/6G open-source initiatives. His career spans architect and leadership roles at Huawei where he built India's SODA team and drove ARM/Linux platform engineering, and he holds multiple patents and publications in observability, storage and system optimization. Sanil mentors academia and community developers, has delivered 150+ talks, and is incubating open-source projects and courses to grow the next generation of contributors. Now pursuing a PhD in Secure Hybrid Observability, he blends research rigor with product-led execution—his startup products target AI-enabled cost, hiring and security problems while remaining deployable fully on-premises. An often-overlooked strength is his ability to translate low-level kernel and storage expertise into cloud-native, multi-cloud solutions that scale across industry and community ecosystems.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Part-time), Secure Hybrid Observability, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Part-time), Secure Hybrid Observability at Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamBachelor of Technology (BTech), Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Electronics and Communications Engineering at University of Kerala
Github Skills (15)
data-storage10
storage10
file-storage10
object-storage10
go10
backend10
resource-management10
python10
multicloud10
back-end-development10
database9
aws-s39
databases9
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sodafoundation/strato
Nov 2019 - Dec 2022
SODA Strato (Multi-cloud) project provides a cloud vendor agnostic data management for hybrid cloud, intercloud or intracloud. This project is renamed as 'Strato'
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 48 reviews, 104 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Sanil's commits primarily focus on modifying the S3 service within the Strato project, specifically addressing a bug related to ACL and tenant configurations. They've made changes across multiple Go files within the s3/pkg/service directory. The contributions involve adapting the backend logic to incorporate tenant awareness and ensuring consistency in backend operations across different cloud vendors. Furthermore, the changes demonstrate work on multipart upload features.
gcpvendorrenamedagnosticsap-hana
sodafoundation/delfin
May 2020 - Dec 2022
delfin is the SODA Infrastructure Manager project which provides unified, intelligent and scalable resource management, alert and performance monitoring
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 51 reviews, 52 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Sanil primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of a fake storage driver within the Delfin project, specifically by modifying the `FakeStorageDriver` class to include features like the generation of random counts for various storage resources and implementing relations between these resources. Further contributions include updates to resource relation building within the task manager, and updates to the access info and tools modules. These commits suggest involvement in the core logic and infrastructure of the storage management system.
project-manageralertperformance-monitoringscalablesoda
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.