Profile

Lakshmipathi.G [email protected]

Creator/Co-founder webminal.org and FOSS India Awards Winner

Magazines: Linux For You India Linux Format England CTmagazine Germany  Genbeta Spain

21+ years of FOSS/Linux Programmer with 19 years of Industry experience. Contributed as Automation/QA architect, Dev-ops, File System tools, Kernel File system, Build/Release, Web-developer, R&D/FOSS Programmer. Strong skills on Linux Server Security, Cloud and Containers. Experienced in Python/LAMP/ J2EE stacks. Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Open Source Projects (Click here for More details )

2019: distroQA- Automated OS testing tool 2019 : BTRFSCI using GitLab-CI.

2018: dduper- offline deduplication tool for BTRFS. 2017:btrfs-progs

2016: Apps - Rooted(TWRP) Android apps. 2014: expirer - Auto-magically delete files after they expire.

2013: openvz-rq - Docker, Open-vz, AWS EC2 provisioning system. 2012 : chainsawfs - Linux Kernel File System.

2011: Webminal - Place to Learn linux commands. 2010: giis-ext4 Ext4 undelete tool.

2009: minili - 3.8 MB Custom Linux distro. 2008: giis-gui - GUI for giis tool using GTK+ and Glade.

2007: extcarve - Semantic File Carving tool. exthide - Hide files under Linux. 2005: giis - Ext2/ext3 undelete tool.

Skills

FreeBSD Kernel, C, Python, C-Python api (Isilon) C,Python fabric,Bash(8kpc) IBM/HP UNIX, Linux, C, and Informix (Wal-Mart) Java,Struts,JSP,DB2,EJB,Linux/Unix Shell C, mysql,GDB,Strace,gprof,apache,Mysql,PHP,Bash Shell,Drupal(dfs) C,Python,shell script,gdb,gcov,sqlite3,Iozone,fileop,postmark,dbench,fio,posix compliance,bonnie++ (Gluster)

Docker, LXD, OpenVZ, Redis, Boto, AWS, Linode, Btrfs-progs, Sysdig, Python-Kivy, Flask, e2fsprogs, Linux kernel, Kubernets, Jenkins, Buildbot, Testopia, Rust (Beginner), GCP, Nginx, Gunicorn, Firebase/Github/Paypal/Stripe Integrations. Java, Jni, Android Studio, Valgrind, User Mode Linux, Qemu, Travis CI, ARMv7 port, Nodejs, Jquery, Jinja2, websockets, Ansible, Puppet, OpenStack, xfstests,tcpdump, wireshark, packer, GitLabCI. (FOSS)

Work Experience

2026: 

• neverbreak.ai - Reproduce flaky failures reliably and verify fix with the proof
• 0dte.tech - Customized analystics platform for stock/index options market.
  

2024 - 2025: ScyllaDB, Test Automation Consultant (Remote)

• Automated GCP Cloud KMS encryption for the cluster.
• 90% storage utlization testplan and tests.
• Debugging Scylladb issues

2022 - 2023: Supabase, Linux Consultant/SRE (Remote)

• Created Linux image using packer with fastboot and footprint. 
• Golang (viper,cobra,go-chi) based  tools.
• Server hardening using apparmor.
• Pulumi programs to manage/monitor infrastructure.
• PostgreSQL, Pulumi, Ansible/AWX, AWS Cloudwatch, S3, ECS/Fargate, Prometheus, Grafana, Go, Typescript.

2018 - 2022:  Collabora, FOSS/Linux Consultant (Remote)

• Testplan for EXT4 Case-Insensitive feature (Kernel 5.2) and scripts for xfstests.
• OS upgrade automation for CVE fixes via OpenBuild Service using Jenkins.
• OS GUI automation from Installer, KDE login and Desktop app validation. Integrated with Jenkins.
• Kernel+Desktop app CI using LAVA and Jenkins.
• Contributed to KernelCI.
• Experienced with SaltStack and eBPF.
• QA Ruby-Rails5 packages for Debian buster.
• Autoscale Jenkins workers.
• Expertise on Google Cloud Platform.
• Setting GitLabCI autoscale runners.

2016 - 2017: United Nations, Thailand : Linux Expert Consultant. (Remote)

• Implemented and Automated Tiny Core Linux based PXE environment.

2012 - 2015: EMC-Isilon, Bangalore : Developer/Automation/QA Architect

• Understanding OneFS on-disk layout and implemented corruption tool.
• Automation scripts for NetAPP-Isilon migration tools.
• Involved in snapshot cauterization,IntegrityScan, ScatterGather projects.

2012 - 2012: 8kpc, Bangalore : Automation/QA Architect

• Developed automation framework for easily deploying and testing using Python-Fabric.

2009 - 2011: Gluster (RedHat), Bangalore : Automation/Build and Release Engineer/QA Architect.

• Developed automation framework for easily deploying and testing GlusterFS using python,sqlite.
• Developed Continuous Integration frameworks (Dev sanity),Nightly sanity and regression frameworks.
• Responsible for Creating and Managing RPM and DEB packages.(Fedora/CentOS/Debian/Ubuntu)
• Debugging file system issues and Bug fixes and verification.
• Experience with File System QA tools and Setting up/maintaining git repos.
• Experienced in Amazon AWS and Cloud Environments
• Gluster-NFS/Geo replication estimation, testplan preparation and automation.
• Helping community users on mailing list and forums.

2006 - 2009: Cognizant Technologies, Chennai : Open Source COE

• Worked as J2EE and PHP Developer.Implemented C programs to check Mysql performance testing.
• Integrated PHP with Shell Programming and Java to implement Unicode support for the application.
• System Admin: Sendmail server and Cloud Management platforms like OpenQRM and Virtualization.

Education (Name of University and College)

• Master of Computer Applications from Bishop Heber College (Bharathidhasan University), Trichy.2005
• Bachelor of Science – Computer Science from Kongu Arts College (Bharathiyar University), Erode.2002