Shwetha Acharya
Software Engineer At IBM ISDL & Partner Engineer At Red Hat
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolShwetha Acharya is a storage-focused software engineer with seven years' experience building and hardening distributed filesystems, currently working on CephFS SMB integration at IBM while also partnering with Red Hat. She has a strong track record in GlusterFS—fixing critical null-pointer and vulnerability-prone paths, maintaining geo-replication, packaging for multiple Linux distros, and automating test and build pipelines. Comfortable in both code and customer-facing troubleshooting, she routinely resolves production incidents and bridges upstream community work with enterprise distributions. Notably, her attention to defensive programming and cross-distro packaging has measurably improved robustness and release compatibility for large-scale storage deployments.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityXl - XII (Senior Secondary) Science (PCMB), Xl - XII (Senior Secondary) Science (PCMB) at Little Rock Indian School, BrahmavaraGM Vidyaniketan Public School, Brahmavara
English, Kannada, Hindi
Github Skills (9)
c1710
debugging10
storage10
glusterfs10
debug10
error-handling10
filesystem10
distributed-systems10
c1110
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
gluster/glusterfs
Jul 2018 - Nov 2022
Gluster Filesystem : Build your distributed storage in minutes
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:154 reviews, 131 commits, 220 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Shwetha primarily focused on fixing null pointer dereferencing issues and other potential code vulnerabilities within the GlusterFS codebase. Their contributions involved identifying and correcting instances where null values could lead to crashes or unexpected behavior. They addressed these issues by adding condition checks and implementing other defensive programming techniques across various modules of the storage system, including protocol, server, and management components. The user’s work significantly improved the robustness and reliability of the GlusterFS distributed filesystem.
erasure-codingstoragepersistent-storagedistributed-storagefuse-filesystem
Shwetha-Acharya/suse-build-automation
Sep 2021 - Jun 2023
Automate build triggers at https://build.opensuse.org/repositories/home:glusterfs
Contributions:2 PRs, 92 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
repositoriesglusterfsopensuseautomationautomation-framework
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