Veda Shankar
Senior Principal Product Manager at Red Hat
Fremont, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVeda Shankar is a Senior Principal Product Manager with 15 years of experience bridging deep storage engineering and product strategy, currently based in Fremont, CA and driving Red Hat initiatives around Ceph, OpenShift Data Foundation, Cloud Data Services and Sigstore productization. He combines hands-on backend development—contributing to major open-source projects like Ceph and GlusterFS and serving as CephFS PTL on GitHub—with customer-facing roles that shape architecture, pricing, and go-to-market enablement. His background includes building pre-sales software teams, developer advocacy for GPU-accelerated analytics, and creating hardware-software reference architectures with partners such as Intel and Mellanox. Veda’s engineering contributions show a knack for robust, concurrent I/O systems (e.g., async AIO work in tcmu-runner) and pragmatic code hygiene across large distributed storage codebases. He’s equally comfortable in the field guiding sales and solution architects as he is diving into repository-level fixes and feature work, giving him a rare product-plus-code fluency. That blend of technical depth and commercial acumen helps him translate complex storage engineering trade-offs into deployable, enterprise-ready products.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) at Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), DhanbadMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology
Github Skills (23)
asynchronous10
glusterfs10
filesystem10
c-language10
multithreading10
async10
storage10
distributed-systems10
c1110
c1710
ceph10
cprogramming-language10
debug9
command-line-interface9
git9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gluster/glusterfs
Apr 2011 - Jan 2016
Gluster Filesystem : Build your distributed storage in minutes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:297 commits in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Veda primarily contributed to the Gluster Filesystem project by fixing build-related issues, implementing a CLI log level command, and adding a geo-replication log-rotate feature. These changes involved modifying C code and involved modifications to the file system itself. This work indicates a focus on improving the stability and manageability of the GlusterFS.
erasure-codingstoragepersistent-storagedistributed-storagefuse-filesystem
ceph/ceph
Jun 2014 - Jan 2023
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3630 reviews, 1025 commits, 1224 PRs in 8 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Veda focused on backend development for Ceph, as demonstrated by their commits to the codebase. Their contributions centered on bug fixes, code cleanups and adjustments, and implementing new features within the core system. The user demonstrated a solid understanding of the Ceph project's architecture by working on various aspects of the project, including, MDS and client features.
fusefile-storagecephstorageopenebs
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