Krishnan Parthasarathi

Krishnan Parthasarathi is a Senior Software Engineer at MinIO, Inc., where he has been employed since May 2016. He specializes in developing MinIO's object storage server, which is designed for cloud applications and is compatible with Amazon S3.

Education and Early Career

Krishnan completed his Bachelor of Technology (B Tech) in Computer Science and Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, from 2004 to 2008. He began his professional career at Sun Microsystems as a Member of Technical Staff, where he worked on the Gnome Desktop in OpenSolaris and Solaris.

Professional Experience

After Sun Microsystems, he joined Red Hat as a Senior Software Engineer and later worked with Gluster as a Software Engineer. In 2015, he transitioned to ClearSharp Technology Pvt Ltd before moving to MinIO, where he has continued to advance his career in software engineering, focusing on high-performance object storage solutions.13

Contributions and Interests

Krishnan is also active in the open-source community, contributing to various projects related to MinIO and object storage technologies. His professional interests include distributed systems and functional programming, which align with his work at MinIO, a company recognized for its impactful contributions to open-source software in cloud storage.24