# Anand Babu Periasamy

> Anand Babu "AB" Periasamy is the co-founder and co-CEO of MinIO. Previously the co-founder and CTO of Gluster, acquired by Red Hat in 2011 for approximately $136 million, he also served as CTO of California Digital Corporation and worked on the Thunder supercomputer. His public work centers on free software, distributed storage and simplifying infrastructure for developers.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and Co-CEO at MinIO
- **Organizations:** MinIO, Gluster, Red Hat, California Digital Corporation, Free Software Foundation of India, H2O.ai, Manetu
- **Education:** Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering, Annamalai University
- **Known for:** Helped develop Thunder, ranked second on the June 2004 TOP500 list., Co-founded Gluster and architected its distributed file system., Gluster was acquired by Red Hat in 2011 for approximately $136 million.

## Career timeline

- **1999** — Graduated from Annamalai University; worked at NextGen in Delhi.
- **2004** — As CTO of California Digital Corporation, worked on Thunder for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, ranked second on TOP500 in June.
- **2005** — Co-founded Gluster with Hitesh Chellani; served as CTO and principal architect.
- **2011** — Red Hat announced the approximately $136 million cash acquisition of Gluster; subsequently joined its Office of the CTO.
- **2014** — Co-founded MinIO with Garima Kapoor and Harshavardhana.
- **2022** — MinIO announced a $103 million Series B at a $1 billion company valuation.
- **2025** — Presented AIStor, S3 Express and NVIDIA integrations at Cloud Field Day.
- **2026** — Associated with MinIO’s MemKV presentation at AI Infrastructure Field Day 5.

## Achievements

- Helped develop Thunder, ranked second on the June 2004 TOP500 list.
- Co-founded Gluster and architected its distributed file system.
- Gluster was acquired by Red Hat in 2011 for approximately $136 million.
- Co-founded MinIO, which raised $103 million at a $1 billion valuation in January 2022.
- Contributor to GNU Freetalk and other free-software projects.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — A MinIO presentation associated with Periasamy introduced MemKV for distributed shared context memory at AI Infrastructure Field Day 5, recorded June 11.
- **2025-06** — Presented MinIO AIStor, S3 Express API compatibility and NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage integration at Cloud Field Day 23, recorded June 5.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abperiasamy
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/abperiasamy
- GitHub: https://github.com/abperiasamy

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