Nikhil Kamat

Member of Technical Staff 3 @NetApp

CA

StorageGrid Object Storage PlatformFeature Development & Issue Resolution: Contributed to the StorageGrid platform by implementing new features and resolving critical issues, resulting in enhanced system performance and reliability.Erasure Coding Enhancements: Investigated and resolved complex issues in erasure coding read/write datapaths, as well as repair and maintenance workflows (e.g, re-balance, decommission), improving platform efficiency and data resiliency.Drive-Aware Erasure Coding: Developed drive-aware erasure coding functionality, including robust APIs, and addressed repair issues for drive-aware erasure-coded data.Object Data Repair: Enabled object data repair initiation on offline nodes and volumes by resolving race conditions between local and global mapping files. Diagnosed and fixed bugs in erasure-coded data repair workflows, eliminating repair stalls and failures.Volume Restoration: Architected and developed APIs for the Volume Restoration feature, enhancing platform usability and data durability for end-users. These APIs supported UI implementation, replacing legacy CLI commands.Performance Automation: Built an automated performance measurement framework for erasure-coded data repair processes using Bamboo and the ELK stack, with flexibility to test various object sizes and erasure coding schemes across StorageGrid appliances.Metrics & Monitoring: Implemented Prometheus metrics and configured system alerts to monitor erasure-coding maintenance operations and networking components, improving system observability.Distributed Systems Expertise: Deepened understanding of distributed systems by exploring StorageGrid’s Asynchronous Distributed Environment (ADE), focusing on message-passing and event-handling mechanisms.Agile Software Engineering: Practiced Agile development methodologies, actively participating in release sprints and daily scrum meetings to drive continuous improvement and team collaboration.

North Carolina State University

Master of Science - MS, Computer Systems Networking

Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering

Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering