Heyo, I'm Naveen. I am a "Confused Hooman" and a Software Engineer by profession. I currently work as a Senior Software Engineer at Ceph (IBM) on the RADOS team. When I'm away from the keyboard, I either go on treks, dabble in pottery and when all else fails I lay my head on my dog (free therapy sessions FTW) ^^
RADOS (Reliable Autonomic Distributed Object Store) is the backbone of Ceph - the distributed storage system that provides the foundation for object, block, and file storage. It handles data distribution, replication, and recovery across the cluster. I'm currently working on BlueStore, Ceph's default storage backend that manages data directly on raw block devices, bypassing the local filesystem entirely.
Previously, I spent four years at Hasura, where I was designing, building and maintaining various parts of the Hasura product since its inception back in 2020. The journey was rewarding, from supporting our first few customers, scaling its usage many folds to creating the Hasura Data Delivery Network.
I've been getting increasingly drawn towards distributed systems and storage systems - there's something deeply satisfying about understanding how data is stored, replicated, and recovered at scale.
My passion for technology was ignited by a chance encounter with a Harry Potter Video game. I then spent next few years tinkering(unsuccessfully) with CPU's. It wasn't until the year 2016 when I got exposed to "real" Software engineering. That was the year, when I got to know about Open Source Software.
Since then I have become an ardent advocate for it and ended up doing The Linux Kernel Mentorship, Google Summer of Code and an Internship under Linux Foundation for The OpenMainframe Project
Rather than confining myself to a specific label, I prefer to think of myself as a "Puzzle Solver" - always ready to tackle new challenges in the vast world of computing.
I love reading/listening to books, building legos, clearing up my backlog of video games and go for runs. I'll consider my life truly successful when I summit one of the 8000m peaks - a dream I'm actively working towards :)
I'm always up for a chat about anything (the perks caveats of a curious
mind). You can reach me via mail or via
Twitter.