Vasuki Manikarnike
Principal Systems Software Engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolVasuki Manikarnike is a Principal Systems Software Engineer in San Jose with 11 years of experience building high-performance storage and network software. She specializes in Linux kernel development, device drivers, distributed systems, SPDK and NVMe, and has led frontend NVMe/TCP and iSCSI driver work for HPE GreenLake for Block Storage. At HPE she progressed from systems engineer to technical lead and now principal, driving reliability and production readiness for enterprise storage stacks. Her open-source contributions to the widely used SPDK project focused on robustness—fixing NVMe failure handling, memory leaks, and adding unit tests—highlighting a pragmatic focus on stability under failure. Earlier roles include embedded wireless mesh software and teaching operating systems and networking at the University of Minnesota, demonstrating both low-level systems expertise and mentorship. She combines deep kernel-level troubleshooting with a track record of shipping enterprise-grade storage features.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Computer Science & Engineering, 78%, BE, Computer Science & Engineering, 78% at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
English, Kannada, Spanish
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Github Skills (16)
c1710
unit-testing10
storage10
pdk10
sdk10
c1110
nvme10
concurrency9
vi6
vim6
hide6
linux6
mount6
swing6
fuse6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
spdk/spdk
Oct 2020 - Oct 2022
Storage Performance Development Kit
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 9 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Vasuki primarily focused on improving the stability and reliability of the SPDK storage library. Their contributions included fixing critical bugs related to NVMe controller failure handling, addressing memory leaks in unmap operations, and preventing issues related to queued aborts. The user also contributed to the test suite by adding a unit test to cover a specific failure scenario. These changes enhance the robustness of the storage performance development kit.
development-kitvagrantperformancestoragevirtualbox
rmvasuki/m2s_ds2
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:32 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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