Lakshmipathi G.
Winner of FOSS India Awards, 91-953******* ************.*@****.**.**
Profile
More than 9 years of experience as FOSS/Linux Programmer with 6 years of industry
experience in Information Technology. Has experience in Distributed file system Storage
along with Strong Knowledge of ext2/3/4 file system.Experienced in LAMP technologies and
J2EE. Strong skills on Linux Server Security aspects.
Roles and Contributed as File System tools developer,Kernel File system
Programmer,Automation Engineer, Build and Release Engineer,QA Engineer,Web-developer,
R&D/FOSS Programmer.
Education
Name of University and College
Master of Computer Applications from Bishop Heber College (Bharathidhasan University),
Trichy.2005
Bachelor of Science Computer Science from Kongu Arts College (Bharathiyar University),
Erode.2002
Skills
Languages / Databases/Tools/Company
C,Python fabric,Bash(8kpc)
C,Python,shell script,gdb,gcov,sqlite3,Iozone,fileop,postmark,dbench,fio,posix
compliance,bonnie++ (Gluster)
C,Java,Struts,JSP,DB2,EJB,Linux/Unix Shell
Programming,mysql,GDB,Strace,gprof,apache,Mysql,PHP,Bash Shell,Drupal(dfs.com)
IBM/HP UNIX, Linux, C, and Informix.(Wal-Mart)Work Experience
2012-Present
8kpc,Bangalore
Automation Engineer/QA Engineer
Developed automation framework for easily deploying and testing using Python-Fabric.
Responsible for over-all stability of Network File System products.
2009-2011Gluster (RedHat),Bangalore
Automation Engineer/Build and Release Engineer/QA Engineer
Developed automation framework for easily deploying and testing GlusterFS using
python,sqlite.
Developed Dev sanity,Nightly sanity and regression framworks using Bash Script.
Responsible for Creating and Managing RPM and DEB packages.(Fedora/CentOS/Debian/Ubuntu)
Debugging file system issues and Bug fixes and verification.
Experience with File System QA tools and Setting up/maintaining git repos.
Experienced in Amazon AWS and Cloud Environments.
2006-2009Cognizant Technologies,Chennai
Open Source COE
Worked as J2EE and PHP Developer.Implemented C programs to check Mysql performance
testing.
Integrated PHP with Shell Programming and Java to implement Unicode support for the
application.
Administration Sendmail server and Cloud Management platforms like OpenQRM and
Virtualization technologies Xen,VMware,Kvm.
2003-PresentFOSS Community.
FOSS Programmer
Has experience in Linux Kernel File System Development and Kernel modules.
Has experience in Linux System programming,Linux IPC, Socket programming.
Gained sound knowledge in ext3/ext4 recovery process and analyzed various file systems.
Hardening Linux using SELinux modules,Pam.d,quota setup.
Open Source Projects/Activities
2011-2012
chainsawfs - Linux Kernel File System.
webminal - Place to Learn linux commands.
2010
giis-ext4 Ext4 undelete tool-Featured in UK's Linux Format Magazine June-
2011.(http://www.giis.co.in/giis_LXF.jpg)
2009
minili - 3MB Custom Linux distro.
2008-2009
giis-gui - GUI for giis tool using GTK+ and Glade.
2007
extcarve - Semantic File Carving tool which recovers files based on analysis of magic
signatures.
exthide - A file system tool to hide files under Linux.
2006
giis - Ext2/ext3 undelete tool-Won FOSS India Awards in 2008. Featured in India's "Linux
For You" magazine (http://www.giis.co.in/LFY.png)
2006
Membership in LinuxForums.org, Leadership RoleReferences
https://github.com/Lakshmipathi
http://www.giis.co.in/