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Tech Lead at Broadcom, leading the Kubernetes Distribution team. Kubernetes SIG Storage Maintainer, CNCF Ambassador, and open source contributor shaping the cloud native ecosystem for 20+ years.
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Tech Lead at Broadcom, leading the Kubernetes Distribution team. 20+ years in open source infrastructure. Previously a Developer Lead at Red Hat (~16 years), specializing in storage engineering, Kubernetes, CephFS/GlusterFS integration, and container orchestration.
Core maintainer of SIG Storage in Kubernetes and one of the top contributors from the Asia region. Author of ‘Mastering KVM Virtualization’ — the first comprehensive book on KVM and its ecosystem.
Passionate about community building and knowledge sharing. Experienced in Assembly, x86 arch, C, Go, Python, Bash. Love Linux kernel for its smart implementation.
Career Timeline
Building the cloud native future — as a maintainer, project lead, and community ambassador.
Tech Lead
BroadcomLeading the Kubernetes Distribution team in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). Driving upstream Kubernetes contributions and cloud-native infrastructure at scale.
Developer Lead — Storage Engineering
Red Hat~16 years at Red Hat. Led software-defined storage products, OpenShift engineering, CephFS and GlusterFS integration with Kubernetes. Worked on KVM Virtualization, Linux kernel, cluster technologies, and performance tuning. RHCE certified in RHEL 4.
Talks & Events
Sharing knowledge at conferences and community events across India.
Welcome Note & Community Address
Speaker — “A Debugging Journey from CoreDNS to Coreutils”
Welcome Note & Community Address
Welcome Note — 550+ Attendees
Welcome Note — 600+ Attendees
Organizer & Host — 90+ events
Books
Documenting expertise in virtualization and cloud-native.
Mastering KVM Virtualization — 2nd Ed.
Comprehensive guide to KVM, libvirt, QEMU, and oVirt.
Amazon ↗
Mastering KVM Virtualization — 1st Ed.
The first comprehensive book on KVM and its ecosystem.
Amazon ↗Keynotes, welcome addresses, and technical talks from major conferences.
Building Cloud Native Communities
Organizer and active contributor to cloud native communities and conferences across India.
Dive Into My Work
Blog, tech videos, programming forums, and more — explore my technical resource hub.
Community & Impact
This resource hub has been helping engineers worldwide since 2008.
Let’s Build Something Together
Kubernetes, cloud-native storage, open source, or community building — let’s talk.
Active contributor to kubernetes/kubernetes, ceph/ceph-csi, and container-storage-interface. 98 followers, Arctic Code Vault Contributor.
Founder of LibreMinds — 14,000+ members across 4 chapters. Organized 90+ events, 4 conferences, and growing.