Chandrakanth Gadhiraju

About Chandrakanth Gadhiraju

Storage and networking expert with experience in leading architectural designs and development of large scale storage and network platforms. Experience in leading product development teams, proposals and prototype implementation for forward-thinking projects and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Ambitious self-starter with start up experience. Interested in solving challenging large-scale distributed problems.Areas of expertise- Distributed, clustered and parallel file systems in NAS, SAN and object-based environments- Storage performance and capacity optimizations including RAID, De-duplication, zero-copy, caching- TCP/IP stack implementation- FreeBSD/Linux kernel internals - Storage and networking protocols- Memory management - Embedded and device driver developmentSpecialties: Storage, Distributed Parallel File Systems, load balancing and load management algorithms, deduplication, compression, clustering, virtualization, cloud storage, NAS, SAN and object storage, NFS, pNFS, cloud computing, IaaS, PaaS, Operating system internals - embedded Linux, FreeBSD; Networking - TCP/IP stack implementation and internals, HTTP, REST, L2-L7 switches; Platforms - x86, x86_64, ppc, device drivers, Board bring-up experience.

Experience

1. Staff Engineer

   Vmware

   Jul 2015 — Present

   vSAN (Virtual SAN) is VMware\'s software-defined storage (SDS) solution that is tightly integrated with the vSphere hypervisor to create a shared, distributed datastore for virtual machines (VMs) from a cluster of ESXi hosts.Lead the design, development and evolution of several core components in tiered Original Storage Architectute (OSA) and Enterprise Object Storage (ESA) of vSAN\'s Hyper Converged Infrastructure.Core IO path development including IO scheduler, intent logs, File Systems and Data services with emphasis on data and meta-data reliability and performance. Specialized in storage optimization techniques - compression, encryption and checksumming of data.

Education

• University of Kentucky

  MS, computer science

Skills

• Multithreading
• Scalability
• Networking
• Virtualization
• San
• High Availability
• Storage
• Device Drivers
• Tcp/Ip
• Cluster
• Shell Scripting
• Network Programming
• Freebsd
• Deduplication
• Scsi
• File Systems
• Algorithms
• Linux Kernel
• Linux
• Kernel Programming
• Nas
• X86
• Debugging
• Operating Systems
• Distributed Systems
• Internet Protocol Suite (Tcp/Ip)
• Embedded Linux
• Kernel
• Solaris
• Perl
• Cloud Computing
• Nfs
• Unix
• Hardware