Nikhil Ladha

About Nikhil Ladha

With over 5 years of experience building scalable backend systems at industry leaders like IBM and Red Hat, I specialize in cloud-native technologies, infrastructure automation, and open-source development—skills I bring to high-impact backend engineering roles. At IBM, I’ve led initiatives around Kubernetes CSI components, contributing to open-source projects like csi-addons, ceph-csi, and go-ceph. My work spans implementing features such as VolumeGroup protocol support and Prometheus metrics integration, leveraging Golang, Docker, and Kubernetes. At Red Hat, I enhanced CI/CD pipelines for the OpenShift Data Foundation, reducing build times by 25%, while managing hotfix workflows and resolving production-critical issues in distributed storage systems. Beyond my day job, I have been an active open-source contributor and maintainer at Layer5—building developer tools for Kubernetes, improving UI/API features, and mentoring 100+ contributors. These experiences have strengthened my technical communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.I’m always eager to contribute to forward-thinking engineering teams and bring my backend expertise, systems thinking, and open-source mindset to impactful projects.To know more about me, feel free to checkout on my GitHub profile at https://github.com/Nikhil-Ladha

Experience

1. Backend Developer

   IBM

   Jan 2023 — Present · IN

   Implemented VolumeGroup protocol in csi-addons (an extended CSI component) which allows CSI drivers to use CSI-addons to deploy and manage VolumeGroups in their k8s clusters- Implemented prometheus metrics support in an upcoming kubernetes csi sidecar named external-snapshot-metadata- Lead the effort on developing rook operator bundle using operator-sdk tool and automate its deployment using a meta operator in ODF- Feature developments such as enable metrics support in ceph-csi, custom storage class names for ODF managed resources, allow automatic space reclaim for volumes in OpenShift using a new controller in operator- Bug fixes, improvements in Golang based operators of ODF like enhanced alerts, systematic versioning and seamless upgrade process- Developed new go APIs in the go-ceph library- Continous improvements and maintenance for Ceph-CSI project, a csi driver for ceph in kubernetes.

Education

• University of Engineering and Management,Jaipur

  Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science

  2016 — 2020

• Birla Bharati

  School

  2002 — 2014

• Birla Bharati

  High School, Science

  2014 — 2016