Vijay Bellur works as a Senior Principal Engineer with Red Hat. He is a  co-maintainer for the upstream GlusterFS project and was an architect at  Gluster before its acquisition by Red Hat in 2011. He has been involved  with building enterprise storage and scalable distributed systems over  the past decade. Vijay works out of the Red Hat office in Bengaluru and  his topics of interest include disk file systems, virtualization  technologies and Big Data.