Alan Bishop
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Bishop is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of focused experience building reliable, security-conscious storage and systems software, currently at Red Hat after senior engineering roles at Dell/EqualLogic and Motorola. He has deep backend expertise in block storage and encryption key management, demonstrated by substantive contributions to the high-profile OpenStack Cinder project to improve encrypted volume handling, backups, and duplicate prevention. Trained in engineering and chemistry at Cornell (M.Eng. and A.B.), he blends rigorous academic grounding with long-running industry experience dating back to the mid-1990s. Alan is comfortable operating at both individual contributor and principal-engineer levels, routinely refactoring legacy code to harden security and simplify operational workflows. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that balance reliability, maintainability, and real-world deployment constraints.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Electrical Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Electrical Engineering at Cornell University
Github Skills (10)
cinder10
block-storage10
openstack10
python10
encryption10
database-management9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/cinder
Mar 2017 - Sep 2022
OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:70 commits in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alan primarily focused on enhancing the block storage functionality within the OpenStack Cinder project. Their contributions involved implementing features to prevent duplicate entries, address security issues with encryption keys, and improve volume and backup management. They also refactored existing code to streamline key management and ensure the correct handling of encrypted volumes during transfer and backup operations. The work demonstrates a focus on improving the security and reliability of the block storage service.
cinderblockchainopendevblock-storageopenstack
ASBishop/cinder-operator
Sep 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:53 pushes, 73 branches in 2 years 1 month
golangcinderkubernetesoperator
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