User:Kashyapc

Kashyap Chamarthy

Kashyap Chamarthy

I work as part of Red Hat's virtualization team.

I'm also a contributor to various upstream projects: OpenStack "Compute" project, for about 9 years in the past; QEMU (the emulator project); KVM (the kernel-based hypervisor); 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 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.

Upstream

I strongly believe in, and practice, 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 co-organize the Virt & IaaS "devroom" (it just means a sub-conference) at FOSDEM.

I occasionally write for the 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 in Fedora was mostly from a virtualization-related angle (package reviews, occasional test days, getting some software packaged for into Fedora, etc).

My past Fedora package reviews.

Contact

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