👋 Hi, I'm Manish Yathnalli
I'm a systems programmer and open-source contributor with deep experience in C, Go, Kubernetes and performance engineering. I currently work on distributed storage systems and benchmarking tools.
🧑💻 My Open Source Contributions
🚀 Kubernetes & CSI
- kubernetes/kubernetes#128972 – Added external snapshotter CRDs to core repo
- kubernetes/kubernetes#126326 – Comprehensive e2e tests for the Volume Group Snapshot feature
- kubernetes-csi/external-snapshotter#1152 – Improved E2E test reliability
- kubernetes-csi/external-snapshotter#1034 – Feature addition: snapshot API controller behavior
📦 Other OSS Work
- ceph/ceph#52527 – Added MDS warning with estimated journal replay time
- ceph/ceph#52149 – Fixed cephfs-journal-tool help message for better clarity
- ceph/go-ceph – Contributor (FSQuiesce, lint fixes)
- cryptopia-api-python – API wrapper for crypto exchange
📊 Data Science & Kaggle Achievements
I'm a passionate machine learning hobbyist with achievements on Kaggle:
- Participated in multiple real-world ML challenges, including:
- Two Sigma: Using News to Predict Stock Movements – Silver Medal 🥈
- APTOS 2019 Blindness Detection – Bronze Medal 🥉
- Built notebooks for predictive modeling, EDA, and optimization
🧠 Kaggle Profile: manishym
🛠️ Tech Stack
C Go Python Kubernetes Linux SPDK Ceph Performance Benchmarking Storage Systems
📫 Reach Me
- GitHub: @manishym
- Email: manishym@gmail.com