Ira Cooper
Principal Software Engineer at FlashGrid
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolIra Cooper is a Principal Software Engineer in Boston with 20+ years of experience designing and delivering robust, high-availability systems across on-prem and cloud environments. He brings deep specialization in Linux storage, networking, and virtualization, with proven work on Samba/GlusterFS/Ceph, ZFS, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud stacks (AWS/Azure). He has led strategic storage initiatives at Red Hat and The MathWorks, driving Samba development and Ceph/Gluster integrations across globally distributed teams. Since 2022 he has been driving architecture and delivery at FlashGrid, shaping scalable data-center software for modern infrastructure. His hands-on achievements include 3PB raw Ceph storage deployments, MAAS-based bare-metal provisioning, Knot DNS, and high-availability load balancing in complex data-center rollouts. He holds a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and was an MIT NDG fellow, underscoring a strong analytic foundation.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Fellow - NDG, Computer Science - Mathematics, Fellow - NDG, Computer Science - Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBS, Computer Science - Mathematics, BS, Computer Science - Mathematics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (43)
infiniband10
glusterfs10
kubernetes10
fat10
rdma10
nfs10
fuse10
openebs10
storage10
blob-storage10
hdfs10
smb10
data-exchange10
nvme10
persistent-storage10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ilc/vial-qmk
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
QMK fork with Vial-specific features.
Contributions:6 PRs, 228 pushes, 63 branches in 1 year
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