Vishesh Tanksale
Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVishesh Tanksale is a Senior Software Engineer with 7 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and virtualization features, currently based in San Jose and working at NVIDIA. He has deep expertise in Kubernetes and KubeVirt—implementing GPU passthrough/virtual modes for VMs, qcow2 disk support, and upstream contributions—and has presented this work at KubeCon. His background spans backend and DevOps engineering, including notable open-source contributions to the kubevirt/containerized-data-importer project where he added S3 source support, migrated to the AWS S3 SDK, and hardening scans. Prior roles at Apple, Tintri and research at Indiana University show a consistent focus on storage, VM lifecycle workflows, and resilient recovery from cloud failures. He pairs systems-level design with pragmatic engineering: shipping device plugins, secrets integrations with Vault, and performance class features that bridge kernel-level functionality and Kubernetes control planes.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at Indiana University BloomingtonBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Technology at Maharashtra Institute of Technology
English, Hindi, Marathi
Github Skills (8)
kubernetes10
go10
containerization10
kubernetes-pods10
dockers9
docker9
cicd8
security7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kubevirt/containerized-data-importer
Aug 2020 - Aug 2021
Data Import Service for kubernetes, designed with kubevirt in mind.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 10 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Vishesh contributed to several aspects of the containerized-data-importer project, including implementing features for S3 source data volumes and adding support for specifying CA certs for push images. They were also involved in refactoring the codebase by replacing the Minio Client with the AWS S3 SDK to support a generic S3 endpoint. Furthermore, the user integrated gosec scans and added functionality to dump the CDI install strategy to a configmap.
kubevirtvmskubernetesminddata-import
visheshtanksale/kubevirt-gpu-device-plugin
Oct 2019 - Aug 2024
NVIDIA k8s device plugin for Kubevirt
Contributions:30 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 11 months
kubevirtnvidiak8skubernetesdevice-plugin
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