Ganesh Vernekar is a software engineer at Grafana Labs, contributing primarily to Prometheus and Cortex open-source software projects, with occasional work on Thanos. Based in Dharwad, India, Ganesh joined Grafana Labs due to its promising growth and significant investment in Prometheus, aligning with his interests. He has recently worked on memory-mapping head chunks and improving snapshotting in Prometheus, as well as optimizing Cortex's new block storage. In his free time, Ganesh enjoys photography, watching movies, reading, researching interesting topics, and traveling. To focus during work, he listens to loud music, particularly EDM, and appreciates the flexibility, global connectivity, and challenging problems his job offers. His GitHub handle is "codesome" and Twitter handle is "@_codesome," and he recently binge-watched the Harry Potter film series.