Yash Mankad
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolYash Mankad is a Principal Software Engineer with a decade of experience specializing in virtualization and confidential computing, currently product‑owning Confidential Computing enablement across containers, VMs, and clusters at Red Hat. He represents Red Hat as Vice Chair of the Technical Advisory Council and mentorship lead at the Confidential Computing Consortium, bridging industry standards and product delivery. His background includes leading virtualization product strategy for RHEL, building CI and automation for qemu-kvm/libvirt, and hands‑on work packaging virtio Windows drivers to broaden OS support. Based in Ottawa, he combines systems-level engineering, program ownership, and community leadership to turn complex security and virtualization challenges into productized solutions. An early-career foundation in networking and telecoms gives him a practical perspective on real-world deployment constraints that informs his product decisions.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
HSC, Physical Sciences, HSC, Physical Sciences at Mithibai CollegeMaster of Science (MS), Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Master of Science (MS), Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at University of Colorado BoulderSSC, SSC at M P Shah English High SchoolBachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering
English, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi
Github Skills (6)
configuration-management10
file-management10
python10
build-automation10
virtio10
scripting9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
virtio-win/virtio-win-pkg-scripts
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Scripts for packaging virtio-win drivers
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 2 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Yash's contributions center around modifying build scripts and configurations for packaging Windows virtio drivers. The primary focus is on expanding support for newer Windows versions, specifically Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 (2k16). They added entries to the `DRIVER_OS_MAP` and `FILELISTS` to include these OSes and updated digital signatures and file layouts. The user also modified the build to include the drivers in the floppy images.
driversdriverwindows-driverwindowsmount
yashkmankad/content-resolver-input
Jul 2023 - Dec 2024
Configuration files for Feedback Pipeline
Contributions:7 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 5 months
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