Manish Katiyar
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolManish Katiyar is a senior software engineer with 26 years of experience in low-level systems, filesystems, and storage architecture, currently leading next-generation blobstore metadata architecture at Google from Sunnyvale. He spent a decade-plus at NetApp working deep in WAFL filesystem internals and held system software roles at IBM, bringing a strong background in debugging assembly-level issues and memory management. His open-source contributions to projects like e2fsprogs and Linux kernel drivers demonstrate hands-on expertise fixing memory leaks, preventing regressions, and improving code quality in critical filesystem components. Known for hunting elusive bugs in hex dumps as much as designing scalable metadata systems, he blends meticulous kernel-level craftsmanship with large-scale storage architecture leadership.
26 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
St. Francis schoolB.Tech, Chemical Engineering., B.Tech, Chemical Engineering. at Indian Institute of Technology, KharagpurSt. Johns school
Bhojpuri
Github Skills (13)
c1710
kernel10
memory-management10
error-handling10
linux10
filesystem10
c1110
linux-kernel10
fileio10
build-system9
debugging9
driver8
networking7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jonsmirl/mpc5200
Dec 2007 - Feb 2011
Digispeaker
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Manish primarily contributes to fixing compilation warnings and addressing minor code issues within the Linux kernel source code. Their commits focus on eliminating unused variable warnings, improving code quality, and preventing memory leaks, as evidenced by their work in various drivers and filesystem components like MTD, netlabel, and ext2/3/4 filesystems. The contributions involve direct code modifications to address compiler warnings and improve build processes. The user also replaces deprecated functions and enhances whitespace in the code.
tytso/e2fsprogs
Apr 2008 - Mar 2009
Ext2/3/4 file system utilities
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Manish primarily contributed to the `e2fsprogs` project by fixing memory leaks and improving code stability. They addressed issues related to memory allocation and deallocation within the `libext2fs` library, particularly in the `ext2fs_initialize` and `ext2fs_extent_open` functions. Additionally, the user made improvements by adding stricter checks for block size and inode validity, and fixing memory leaks in debugging tools like `debugfs`. They also made changes to the `badblocks` utility.
ext2filesystem
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