Sasikanth Eda
Back End Developer - Storage at IBM
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSasikanth Eda is a back-end storage engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in distributed filesystems (IBM Spectrum Scale/GPFS), object and NAS storage, and cloud-native storage across AWS, Azure, GCP and OpenStack. At IBM he designs and implements CSI-driven features, marketplace offerings, and automated multi-cloud deployment patterns using Terraform, Ansible and CloudFormation, and led performance benchmarking, sizing and threat-model collaboration with cloud vendors. He contributed to OpenStack Cinder by extending the IBMNAS driver to support NFS-backed GPFS volumes and encryption-at-rest, reflecting deep practical expertise in integrating enterprise storage into open-source cloud stacks. Accredited as an IBM Master Inventor with 96 granted patents, he blends hands-on Python and Go development with a strong record of innovation. Notably, he implemented lazy-loading and partial file caching optimizations for container registry storage, delivering measurable performance improvements in cloud-native workflows. Based in Bengaluru, he holds a master’s in Electronics from IIIT and focuses on bridging complex storage architectures to operable, secure cloud services.
12 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Electronics, Master's degree, Electronics at International Institute of Information Technology
Github Skills (7)
cinder10
openstack10
backend10
back-end-development10
python10
nfs10
servicenow9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/cinder
Mar 2014 - Jun 2015
OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Sasikanth primarily contributed to the IBMNAS driver within the OpenStack Cinder project. Their work involved enhancing the driver's configuration and functionality, specifically by appending `nas_opts` and updating permissions for the IBMNAS driver. They also extended the driver to support NFS-based GPFS storage systems and implemented encryption-at-rest capabilities for GPFS volumes. This involved modifying existing driver code, creating test cases, and adding new configuration options.
cinderblockchainopendevblock-storageopenstack
IBM/ibm-spectrum-scale-cloud-install
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
Cloud Resource Provisioning framework for IBM Storage Scale (or gpfs)
Contributions:13 releases, 103 reviews, 156 commits in 2 years 11 months
gcpprovisioninghcl2ibm-cloudansible
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