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Kashyap Chamarthy

I work as part of Red Hat's virtualization team. I'm also a contributor to various upstream communities: OpenStack, in the past for about 10 years; KVM (the kernel-based hypervisor); QEMU (the versatile emulator project); libvirt (the virtualization API) and related 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 a developer in in the upstream OpenStack, particularly as part of the Compute project that deals with virtualization workloads; (4) worked as "technical interface" between the OpenStack and virt teams, and their corresponding upstream projects). I spent about 10 years doing this.

More recently, I work full time with Red Hat's virtualization team, and their corresponding upstream communities.

Upstream

I strongly believe in, and practise, the "Upstream First" development model. I also value transparent communication and leadership. I hold this belief with thoughtful restraint. In terms of attitude, in light of new compelling evidence, I'm always willing to change my mind. I enjoy being a technical interface between the upstream communities that I'm a part of. And I've had a lot of practice with the (still) difficult art of of balancing upstream vs. downstream "hats".

A list of some upstream technical talks I gave at various conferences — KVM Forum (where the Linux-based virtualization community come together), OpenStack Summit, FOSDEM, Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit, and more:

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

I also coorganize the Virt & IaaS "devroom" (it just means a sub-confernece) at FOSDEM <https://fosdem.org/>.

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) Fedora package maintainer. I also presented at the very first Fedora "Flock" conference, back in 2013 (Charleston, SC). After that, my participation was mostly from a virtualization angle (virt test days; getting OpenStack software into Fedora, and related).

My past Fedora package reviews.

Contact

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

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-*  I work at Red Hat on Virtualization and Cloud (OpenStack) related open source projects
-* '''Fedora Account''': kashyapc
-* '''Email''': [mailto:kashyapc@fedoraproject.org kashyapc@fedoraproject.org]
-* '''IRC''':  kashyap
-* '''Website''': [http://kashyapc.wordpress.com/ blog]
-=== Activities ===
+I work as part of Red Hat's virtualization team. I'm also a contributor to various upstream communities: OpenStack, in the past for about 10 years; KVM (the kernel-based hypervisor); QEMU (the versatile emulator project); libvirt (the virtualization API) and related projects.
-*  Random notes on KVM based Virtualization
-** http://kashyapc.fedorapeople.org/virt/
-** http://kashyapc.fedorapeople.org/virt/openstack
-** http://kashyapc.wordpress.com/tag/virtualization
+<span id="history"></span>
+= History =
-=== Packaging ===
+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.
-== Reviews ==
+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 a developer in in the upstream OpenStack, 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 virt teams, and their corresponding upstream projects). I spent about 10 years doing this.
-[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_status=CLOSED&component=Package%20Review&email1=kchamart%40redhat.com&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=exact&list_id=2022950 Completed Reviews]
+More recently, I work full time with Red Hat's virtualization team, and their corresponding upstream communities.
-[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=MODIFIED&bug_status=ON_QA&component=Package%20Review&email1=kchamart%40redhat.com&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=exact&list_id=2022952 Inprogress Reviews]
+<span id="upstream"></span>
+= Upstream =
+I strongly believe in, and practise, the &quot;Upstream First&quot; development model. I also value [https://opensource.com/article/22/3/transparency-open-source-community-manager transparent communication] and leadership. I hold this belief with thoughtful restraint. In terms of attitude, in light of new compelling evidence, I'm always willing to change my mind. I enjoy being a technical interface between the upstream communities that I'm a part of. And I've had a lot of practice with the (still) difficult art of of balancing upstream vs. downstream &quot;hats&quot;.
+A list of some upstream technical talks I gave at various conferences — KVM Forum (where the Linux-based virtualization community come together), OpenStack Summit, FOSDEM, Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit, and more:
+* https://kashyapc.fedorapeople.org/public-presentations.html
+I also coorganize the Virt &amp; IaaS &quot;devroom&quot; (it just means a sub-confernece) at <span class="title-ref">FOSDEM &lt;https://fosdem.org/&gt;</span>.
+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/
+<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) 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, my participation was mostly from a virtualization angle (virt test days; getting OpenStack software into Fedora, and related).
+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
-== Maintenance ==
-* [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/kashyapc Package maintenance]
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