Sanju Rakonde
Software Engineer at PhonePe
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSanju Rakonde is a software engineer with 8 years of experience building and maintaining large-scale distributed systems, currently contributing at PhonePe from Bengaluru. He has deep practical expertise in storage and management daemons, having been a core contributor and maintainer on the GlusterFS project at Red Hat where he fixed critical bugs, improved code quality, and reduced regression times through test optimizations. At Flipkart and PhonePe he expanded his systems and backend skills in high-throughput, production environments, balancing feature delivery with operational reliability. Sanju is active in open-source communities—handling code reviews, triage, and public mailing-list support—and has mentored juniors and interns throughout his career. Notably, his GlusterFS work included addressing static analysis and deadcode issues and improving glusterd’s brick termination handling, reflecting a focus on long-term maintainability as well as shipping fixes. He combines pragmatic engineering with a contributor’s mindset, making him effective at improving both product stability and developer workflows.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Intermediate, MPC, A+, Intermediate, MPC, A+ at RAJIV GANDHI UNIVERSITY OF KNOWLEDGE TECHNOLOGIES, RK VALLEY
Github Skills (10)
c1710
system10
storage10
glusterfs10
debug10
filesystem10
distributed-systems10
c-programming10
c1110
sys10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gluster/glusterfs
Sep 2017 - Jan 2023
Gluster Filesystem : Build your distributed storage in minutes
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & System Engineer
Backend Developer & System EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 276 commits, 14 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Sanju primarily focused on bug fixes and code improvements within the GlusterFS codebase. Their contributions involved addressing issues related to buffer sizes, unreachable statements, and unused values within the codebase. Additionally, the user contributed to fixing coverity and deadcode issues to enhance code quality. The user was also involved in making glusterd handling brick termination and also, adding documentation for certain commands.
erasure-codingstoragepersistent-storagedistributed-storagefuse-filesystem
sanjurakonde/glusterfs
Jul 2022 - Sep 2024
Gluster Filesystem - (this is only a public mirror, see the README for contributing)
Contributions:20 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 2 months
glusterlinuxglusterfsfilesystem
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