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Kashyap Chamarthy

I work in the Red Hat's virtualization team.

I'm also a contributor to various virtualization-related upstream communities: QEMU (the emulator project); KVM (the kernel-based hypervisor); libvirt (the virtualization API); OpenStack "Compute" project, and other associated projects.

History

I joined Red Hat in 2008, as a test engineer in the Identity and Security group. I worked on a PKI project, focusing mostly on downstream testing for five years.

In 2013, I moved to the then-new OpenStack engineering team. I was involved in various efforts: (1) bootstrapping the OpenStack RDO project—a Red Hat-initiated community effort to package vanilla upstream OpenStack for Fedora (and later switched its focus to CentOS); as part of this, I was involved in all the "traditional work" that entails in building a community; (2) downstream productization; (3) work as an upstream OpenStack developer, particularly as part of the Compute project that deals with virtualization workloads; (4) worked as "technical interface" between the OpenStack and virtualiziation teams, and their corresponding upstream projects). I spent about 10 years doing this.

More recently, I spend my most of time on "all things" related to virtualization, and some emerging technologies.

Upstream

I strongly believe in, and practice, the "Upstream First" way. I hold this belief with a thoughtful restraint, because there are some sensible exceptions to it (e.g. embargoed CVEs). I value and practice transparent communication and leadership. I'm always willing to change my mind in light of new compelling evidence (otherwise, Socrates would be disappointed with me ;-)). I enjoy working as a "bridge" between multiple upstream communities. I've also had a lot of practice with the difficult art of of balancing upstream vs. downstream "hats".

A list of some technical talks I gave at various upstream conferences: KVM Forum, where the Linux-based virtualization community comes together—I've been a close member of this community for 10+ years; OpenStack Summit, FOSDEM, Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit, and more:

https://kashyapc.fedorapeople.org/public-presentations.html

I also co-organize the Virt & IaaS "devroom" (it just means a sub-conference) at FOSDEM.

I occasionally write for the inimitable LWN.net:

A QEMU case study in grappling with software complexity — https://lwn.net/Articles/872321/
Challenges in protecting virtual machines from untrusted entities — https://lwn.net/Articles/838488/
Changed-block tracking and differential backups in QEMU — https://lwn.net/Articles/837053/

Fedora

I've been a user of Fedora since Fedora 9. My package sponsor was "Spot" (Tom Callaway), way back in 2009. I used to be a (not so diligent—sorry, Spot) Fedora package maintainer. I also presented at the very first Fedora "Flock" conference, back in 2013 (Charleston, SC). After that, most of my participation in Fedora was from a virtualization-related angle.

(My past Fedora package reviews.)

Contact

Fedora Account: kashyapc
Email: kashyapc@fedoraproject.org
Matrix: kashyapc

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+[[Image: kashyap-chamarthy.JPG | right | thumb| Kashyap Chamarthy]]
+I work in the Red Hat's virtualization team.
+I'm also a contributor to various virtualization-related upstream communities: QEMU (the emulator project); KVM (the kernel-based hypervisor); libvirt (the virtualization API); OpenStack "Compute" project, and other associated projects.
+<span id="history"></span>
+= History =
+I joined Red Hat in 2008, as a test engineer in the Identity and Security group. I worked on a [https://www.dogtagpki.org PKI project], focusing mostly on downstream testing for five years.
+In 2013, I moved to the then-new OpenStack engineering team. I was involved in various efforts: (1) bootstrapping the OpenStack [https://www.rdoproject.org/community/faq/ RDO project]—a Red Hat-initiated community effort to package vanilla upstream OpenStack for Fedora (and later switched its focus to CentOS); as part of this, I was involved in all the &quot;traditional work&quot; that entails in building a community; (2) downstream productization; (3) work as an upstream OpenStack developer, particularly as part of the [https://docs.openstack.org/nova/latest/ Compute project] that deals with virtualization workloads; (4) worked as &quot;technical interface&quot; between the OpenStack and virtualiziation teams, and their corresponding upstream projects). I spent about 10 years doing this.
+More recently, I spend my most of time on "all things" related to virtualization, and some emerging technologies.
+<span id="upstream"></span>
+= Upstream =
+I strongly believe in, and practice, the &quot;Upstream First&quot; way.  I hold this belief with a thoughtful restraint, because there are some sensible exceptions to it (e.g. embargoed CVEs).  I value and practice [https://opensource.com/article/22/3/transparency-open-source-community-manager transparent communication] and leadership. I'm always willing to change my mind in light of new compelling evidence (otherwise, Socrates would be disappointed with me ;-)). I enjoy working as a "bridge" between multiple  upstream communities.  I've also had a lot of practice with the difficult art of of balancing upstream vs. downstream &quot;hats&quot;.
+A list of some  technical talks I gave at various upstream conferences: KVM Forum, where the Linux-based virtualization community comes together—I've been a close member of this community for 10+ years; OpenStack Summit, FOSDEM, Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit, and more:
+* https://kashyapc.fedorapeople.org/public-presentations.html
+I also co-organize the Virt &amp; IaaS &quot;devroom&quot; (it just means a sub-conference) at [https://fosdem.org FOSDEM].
+I occasionally write for the inimitable [https://lwn.net/ LWN.net]:
+* ''A QEMU case study in grappling with software complexity'' — https://lwn.net/Articles/872321/
+* ''Challenges in protecting virtual machines from untrusted entities'' — https://lwn.net/Articles/838488/
+* ''Changed-block tracking and differential backups in QEMU'' — https://lwn.net/Articles/837053/
+<span id="fedora"></span>
+= Fedora =
+I've been a user of Fedora since Fedora 9. My package sponsor was &quot;Spot&quot; (Tom Callaway), way back in 2009. I used to be a (not so diligent—sorry, Spot) Fedora package maintainer. I also [https://kashyapc.wordpress.com/2013/08/ presented] at the very first Fedora &quot;Flock&quot; conference, back in 2013 (Charleston, SC). After that, most of my participation in Fedora was from a virtualization-related angle.
+(My past Fedora [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_status=CLOSED&component=Package%20Review&email1=kchamart%40redhat.com&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=exact&list_id=2022950%20Completed%20Reviews package reviews].)
+= Contact =
+* Fedora Account: kashyapc
 * Email: [mailto:kashyapc@fedoraproject.org kashyapc@fedoraproject.org]
+* Matrix: kashyapc
+{{ #fedorabadges: kashyapc }}

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