Vikhyat Umrao
Senior Manager, Software Engineering Global at IBM
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolVikhyat Umrao is a Senior Engineering Leader with 12 years of experience building and sustaining large-scale software-defined storage systems, currently leading global engineering teams for IBM Storage Ceph and OpenShift Data Foundation in San Jose. He specializes in rapid customer adoption and L3 escalation response, blending sustenance engineering with performance and scale testing to reproduce and resolve complex customer workloads. His career spans deep Ceph and storage expertise at Red Hat and IBM, covering RADOS, RBD, RGW, CephFS and integrations with OpenShift, OpenStack and HCI platforms. Colleagues rely on him for coordinating cross-functional perf&scale and quality teams to deliver measurable improvements under customer SLAs. Notably, he brings hands-on developer roots from AFS and early security product work, giving him a rare combination of low-level storage knowledge and global operational leadership.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering, B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering at Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University
English, Hindi
Github Skills (91)
rdma10
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gossip10
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disable10
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database10
infiniband10
kubernetes10
nfs10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vumrao/ceph
Apr 2015 - Oct 2022
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Contributions:5 PRs, 225 pushes, 116 branches in 7 years 7 months
file-storagecephdatabasestoragedistributed-file-system
vumrao/ceph-build
Feb 2022 - Feb 2022
Helper scripts for building the official Ceph packages
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 3 days
powershellhelper-scriptsceph
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