Sachidananda Urs
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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RockstarSachidananda Urs is a seasoned systems engineer and co-founder with 12+ years of hands-on experience in low-level Unix development, automation, and storage systems. He brings deep expertise in C, Perl, Python, shell scripting and debugging with gdb/pdb, complemented by benchmarking and result analysis using tools like iozone, filebench and R. A former Red Hat and Gluster engineer, he has contributed pragmatic bug fixes and modernizations to illumos and storage-focused modules in Ansible, improving system stability and storage automation. At Kadalu Technologies he applies this systems background to build and support storage solutions while maintaining close customer communication and technical documentation skills (LaTeX). Comfortable across the stack from rc scripts and Makefiles to PostgreSQL procedures, he combines sysadmin-grade troubleshooting with developer discipline. Colleagues value his knack for turning legacy code patterns into maintainable, modern implementations that quietly raise overall reliability.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (21)
glusterfs10
il10
unix10
system-programming10
python10
c1110
networking10
c1710
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
operating-system10
admin9
administrator9
refactor9
sys9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
illumos/illumos-gate
Dec 2013 - Jul 2022
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:9 commits in 8 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Sachidananda primarily contributed to bug fixes and code improvements within the illumos operating system's source code. Their work involved addressing missing prototypes, refactoring code, and replacing deprecated functions with more modern alternatives. These changes span multiple areas including network protocols, utilities, and system-level functions indicating a focus on system stability and code quality. The user also updated code to use more modern functions, like realpath.
operating-systemunixillumosos
ansible/ansible
May 2018 - Jul 2019
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 10 PRs, 57 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Sachidananda primarily contributed to the Ansible project by modifying and adding modules related to storage and system management. They added a module for GlusterFS peer management, fixing issues, and improving the module's functionality. They also made updates to the `lvg` module, adding support for unit specification for pesize. Additionally, the user corrected documentation and improved the underlying commands used within the modules.
ansibleautomationnetwork-configurationsshpython
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