Sanoj unnikrishnan
Principal Member Of Technical Staff at Oracle
Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSanoj Unnikrishnan is a Principal Member of Technical Staff with over a decade of hands-on experience building high-availability storage, distributed systems, and filesystem features. He has led feature teams at Oracle, VMware, Red Hat, and Veritas, delivering production-grade erasure coding, snapshots, quota systems, caching, and persistent reservation functionality for block devices and filesystems. A Linux systems programmer fluent in C, Python, and shell, he brings deep kernel- and user-space expertise in multithreaded design and virtualization. His open-source contributions include substantive quota subsystem improvements to the widely used GlusterFS project, reflecting both practical bug fixes and new feature design. He also holds a patent for an SSD wear-leveling technique, signaling an uncommon blend of research-driven innovation and product delivery. Based in Karnataka, India, he pairs research experience from IISc’s Storage Systems Lab with a track record of shipping resilient storage features at scale.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Research Student (storage systems lab), Research Student (storage systems lab) at Indian Institute of ScienceKendriya Vidyalaya IIScBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Atria Institute of Technology
Github Skills (9)
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filesystem10
distributed-systems10
c1110
cprogramming-language9
linux9
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gluster/glusterfs
Dec 2016 - Aug 2018
Gluster Filesystem : Build your distributed storage in minutes
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 9 comments, 8 issues in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Sanoj primarily focused on improving the Gluster Filesystem's quota functionality. Their contributions include fixing bugs related to quota configuration upgrades, stale entries in the quota list, and auxiliary mount failures. They also implemented new features like enhanced crawling and improved file handling, alongside adding new features for setting quota limits. These changes involved modifications to quota configuration, and internal structures, demonstrating a deep understanding of the quota subsystem within the GlusterFS architecture.
erasure-codingstoragepersistent-storagedistributed-storagefuse-filesystem
sanoj-unnikrishnan/glusterd2
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
glusterdglusterfsdistributed-systemsdistributed
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