Shubham Pampattiwar is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat based in San Francisco, with eight years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and resilient systems. He leads architecture and delivery across OpenShift-related projects and is an active maintainer of the widely used vmware-tanzu/velero project, contributing key backup and restore features for Kubernetes disaster recovery. His background spans hands-on roles from Veritas to Red Hat, complemented by a MS in Computer Science from NC State, giving him deep experience in storage, distributed systems, and platform reliability. Known for “preaching backups,” he combines pragmatic engineering with open-source stewardship—improving CRDs, APIs, and edge-case handling to make recovery predictable. Beyond coding, he serves as an ambassador for Data on Kubernetes and speaks fluently to operators and developers about practical DR strategies.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at North Carolina State University
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering at Pune Institute of Computer Technology
Backup and migrate Kubernetes applications and their persistent volumes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:590 reviews, 24 commits, 134 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Shubham primarily contributed to the Velero project by implementing and refining features related to backing up and restoring Kubernetes resources. They added support for new functionalities in the Restore API, including existingResourcePolicy and multiple label selector support. The user also addressed edge cases, updated CRD descriptions, and resolved conflicts, demonstrating a focus on improving the functionality and stability of the backup and restore processes. Their work included updates to the code, changelog, and test cases, suggesting involvement in the development and maintenance of the codebase.
Contributions:878 reviews, 149 commits, 219 PRs in 2 years 6 months
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Shubham Pampattiwar - Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat