Vishnu Vardhan
Staff Software Engineer at Rubrik, Inc.
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolVishnu Vardhan is a Staff Software Engineer based in Bengaluru with eight years of cloud-native and storage-focused engineering experience and a longer professional history spanning roles from Novell to Citrix and MayaData. He has led engineering teams as Director of Engineering and contributed architect-level design work, now applying that leadership to production-grade systems at Rubrik. His hands-on background blends back-end development, DevOps, and distributed systems, with notable open-source contributions to the maya project for Container Attached Storage in Kubernetes—implementing CVR quorum logic, pool management, and pre-upgrade finalizers. Vishnu’s strengths lie in making resilient storage control planes predictable and operationally simple while reducing technical debt through pragmatic in-memory and logging improvements. He pairs an MTech from the Indian Statistical Institute with a practical, system-first mindset that surfaces non-obvious reliability gains in complex clusters. Colleagues would describe him as an engineering leader who still prefers shipping code and automating hard operational tasks himself.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at G. Pulla Reddy Engineering CollegeMaster of Technology - MTech, Computer Science, Master of Technology - MTech, Computer Science at Indian Statistical Institute
Github Skills (10)
kubernetes10
cas10
orchestration10
go10
devops10
controller10
kubernetes-pods10
operator10
dockers9
docker9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openebs-archive/maya
Jan 2019 - Mar 2020
Manage Container Attached Storage (CAS) - Data Engines in Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:25 commits, 274 PRs, 247 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Vishnu primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the `maya` repository, which manages Container Attached Storage (CAS) - Data Engines in Kubernetes. Their contributions include implementing new features such as random distribution of CVRs across pools and setting the quorum for new cStorVolumeReplicas. The user also increased log levels and removed stale files related to older NDM CRs. Further contributions involved storing pool API structure and backend configuration in-memory, and setting finalizers for pre-upgrade procedures.
volumecsi-driverkubernetesstoragecas
mayadata-io/cstor
Nov 2017 - Mar 2020
CAS Data Engine - User Space implementation of a popular COW Data Engine - ZFS
Contributions:4 reviews, 87 commits, 238 PRs in 2 years 4 months
crosswordbigdatazfsonlinuxzfsdata-engine
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