About

Aravinda Vishwanathapura is a seasoned technologist with over 14 years of experience in the IT industry. He is currently the Co-Founder and CTO at Kadalu Technologies, where he plays a pivotal role in driving the company's technical strategy. Aravinda is a highly skilled software engineer with expertise in Databases, Web development, and Distributed File system (GlusterFS). As a co-maintainer for GlusterFS Geo-replication feature, Aravinda has made significant contributions to the development of the feature. He has also developed Events APIs to provide Gluster filesystems notification via registered webhooks. Aravinda's favorite topic is distributed systems observability, and he has designed and contributed to Prometheus monitoring integration for GlusterFS. During his tenure at Red Hat, Aravinda created numerous tools that helped Gluster developers and users for debugging, setup, and monitor GlusterFS. He mostly used Python and D languages for these tools development. The source code for most of these tools is available in his Github repository, and some are in Gluster's GitHub repository. Aravinda is also passionate about promoting the Kannada language. He created a web application that can be used for converting documents from ASCII(Baraha/Nudi) format to Unicode or vice versa. This tool helps users to convert from one format to another, making it easier to migrate to Unicode format. The app is having over 3K page views per day, demonstrating its popularity and usefulness. Aravinda holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from Dayananda Sagar University. He has a strong technical background and is proficient in a wide range of technologies, including Senior Software Engineer, Web, Blockchain, Python, Integration, and Software Engineer. As a Platform Architect at dhiway, Aravinda is responsible for designing and implementing the company's platform architecture. He leverages his extensive technical expertise to create scalable and reliable solutions that meet the needs of the company's clients. With over 18.61 years of relevant experience, Aravinda is a valuable asset to any organization he works with.