Aravinda C

About Aravinda C

Software Architect and Systems Engineer with 20+ years of experience in kernel development, debugging and having strong knowledge of Virtualization, Storage, File Systems, Cluster/Distributed Systems, Kubernetes/Containers, Cloud Computing and Operating System Internals. Have architect-ed, designed and developed number of complex subsystems, features from the scratch. Have built and led a number of product teams.Specialties: HPUX and FreeBSD Kernel, File Systems, Volume Managers, Virtualization - ESX/KVM, Storage Stack (SCSI and iSCSI), High Availability, Distributed/Clustered Systems, Kubernetes, Performance Engineering, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Experience

1. Principal Engineer Architect

   NetApp

   Sep 2009 — Present

   Lead engineer / Architect building Software Defined Cloud Native storage solution for - Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (GCNV) and Azure NetApp Files (ANF)- Lead engineer / Architect for Software Defined ONTAP, a.k.a. ONTAP Select product- Architect/design/develop iSCSI initiator driver and iSCSI initiator ecosystem for DataONTAP from scratch- Worked on Data ONTAP storage/SCSI stack as a senior lead engineer- Worked as a Lead Kernel Engineer developing Virtual Simulator for Data ONTAP.Areas: Data ONTAP, FreeBSD Kernel, Vmware Server / ESXi / KVM, Storage Stack - SCSI, Multi pathing, Storage protocols such as iSCSI, NVMe, GCP, Kubernetes

Education

• UVCE

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE

  2000 — 2004

Skills

• Kernel Programming
• Unix
• Hp-UX
• Storage
• Device Drivers
• Operating Systems
• File Systems
• Debugging
• Linux Kernel
• Storage Virtualization
• Freebsd
• Cloud Computing
• High Availability
• Kernel
• C
• Gdb
• Gnu Debugger
• Perl
• Virtualization
• Systems Programming