Prakash Surya
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPrakash Surya is a Senior Member of Technical Staff with 15 years’ experience building and hardening file systems and low-level storage software, currently contributing to ZFS development at Delphix. He has deep systems and kernel expertise demonstrated by substantial open-source contributions to illumos and OpenZFS—adding features like a REFRATIO property, improving arcstats visibility, and fixing metaslab, locking, and memory issues. Prior work at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on the Lustre file system and earlier full-stack internships show a practical blend of systems engineering and application development. Based in North Las Vegas, he pairs an academic background in computer science and applied mathematics with a track record of shipping robust, performance-critical code. An often-overlooked strength is his sustained focus on observability and correctness in storage internals, which helps surface subtle runtime issues before they impact production.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Denison UniversityB.S., Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, B.S., Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at University of the Pacific
Github Skills (19)
filesystem10
openzfs10
il10
unix10
system-programming10
build-system10
os-development10
c1110
c1710
kernel10
zfs10
kernel-mode10
operating-system10
autoconf9
memory-management9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
illumos/illumos-gate
Jun 2011 - Oct 2018
An open-source Unix operating system -- this is a read-only mirror of the official repository at https://code.illumos.org/plugins/gitiles/illumos-gate
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 108 pushes in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Prakash primarily contributed to the `illumos/illumos-gate` repository, an open-source Unix operating system. Their work focused on enhancing the ZFS (Zettabyte File System) functionality. This involved implementing new features like the `refratio` property, addressing a panic related to metaslab initialization, adding more visibility via `arcstats`, and fixing multiple issues related to locking, memory allocation, and performance within ZFS.
operating-systemunixillumosos
openzfs/zfs
Jul 2011 - Feb 2021
OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Systems Engineer
Back-end Developer & Systems EngineerContributions:55 reviews, 94 commits, 28 PRs in 9 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Prakash's contributions primarily focus on enhancing the ZFS codebase, with a clear emphasis on low-level system interactions and kernel-level modifications. The user added a "REFRATIO" property to retrieve compression ratios, and implemented several bug fixes. Furthermore, the user converted 'if' statements to 'AS_IF' in kernel.m4, and added code coverage enhancements.
freebsdlinuxopenzfssystem-softwarefile-system
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