Summary
Sharath Ballal is a seasoned systems engineer with 25+ years of deep experience across JVM internals, storage systems, and secure networking, now serving as Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Oracle. He has driven cloud backup and restore for Oracle Database across OCI, AWS, Azure and ZDLRA, and previously led NAS storage and authentication work at NetApp and JVM/JIT improvements at IBM. A long-standing OpenJDK and JDK Mission Control committer, he blends low-level JVM debugging and performance tuning with large-scale storage product development. Based in Bengaluru and holding an MCA from NIT Karnataka, he pairs production-hardened expertise in Linux, Java and storage clustering with a rare cross-domain perspective that spans kernel-level JVM work to cloud-native backup services.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Applications (MCA), M.C.A, Master of Computer Applications (MCA), M.C.A at National Institute of Technology Karnataka