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:
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 (links to my old and inactive blog) 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
