Shireesh Anjal is a Principal Software Engineer with over two decades in product development, currently shaping backend architecture at MinIO after leading engineering and technology at Milaap. He has deep systems and languages expertise—C, Java, Ruby, Haskell and Go—and a strong track record building distributed storage and banking platforms, including GlusterFS management tooling and architectural frameworks for Infosys Finacle. At MinIO he contributes to core open-source object storage and Java SDK improvements, focusing on robust APIs, developer ergonomics and diagnostics. He blends hands-on coding with engineering leadership, having served as CTO and head of tech teams that scaled web and payments systems for a crowdfunding platform. Notably, his work spans low-level storage health and metrics to high-level customization and reporting frameworks, showing comfort across the full stack of large-scale, production systems. Based in Bengaluru, he pairs a mechanical engineering foundation with a diploma in advanced computing and a pragmatic obsession for solving complex technical problems.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Advanced Computing Software, Diploma in Advanced Computing Software at AICT, Chennai
B.E. Mechanical Engineering, B.E. Mechanical Engineering at Shivaji University
Contributions:113 reviews, 84 commits, 115 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Shireesh primarily contributed to the MinIO Client (`mc`) repository by making enhancements to the `admin subnet health` command and related utilities. These contributions included deprecating existing commands, adding new functionalities for health checks, and implementing improvements to the output format. Furthermore, the user updated dependencies and refactored code to address issues related to the network performance tests, and improved the command output format. These changes demonstrate a focus on the server-side functionality and diagnostics of the MinIO object storage.
MinIO is a high-performance, S3 compatible object store, open sourced under GNU AGPLv3 license.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:191 reviews, 2 commits, 92 PRs in 3 days
Contributions summary:Shireesh primarily focused on back-end code improvements within the MinIO object storage project. Their contributions involved refactoring code, fixing typos in configuration files, and enhancing the system's health diagnostics. They also made changes to logging, removed platform-specific structure definitions, and added metrics. Furthermore, the user made modifications to update license and include various metrics.
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Shireesh Anjal - Principal Software Engineer at MinIO