Alex Meade
Founder at Eff Int, LLC
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Meade is a pragmatic founder and software engineer with 15 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, storage orchestration, and DevOps toolchains. He has driven production-grade work at NetApp (Astra Trident/CSI) and contributed to core OpenStack projects like Cinder and Glance, fixing tricky storage and image-edge bugs that improved reliability for large deployments. As CEO of Eff Int and a Google Cloud Authorized Trainer, he combines hands-on implementation (Kubernetes, OpenShift, CSI drivers, CRDs/operators) with mentoring and course development to help teams adopt DevOps practices. He runs a solopreneur studio and a startup using AI to reduce tabletop RPG master workload, enabling a lifestyle of working roughly 30 weeks a year while staying deeply technical. Notably, his open-source edits include race-condition fixes and volume-resize improvements that directly stabilize container storage systems at scale.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, Mathematics, B.S., Computer Science, Mathematics at Radford University
Github Skills (24)
kubernetes10
filesystem10
volumes10
python10
apidoc10
testing10
cinder10
storage10
go10
openstack10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
management10
netapp10
iscsi9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
NetApp/trident
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Storage orchestrator for containers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:58 commits, 1 PR, 11 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Alex's commits primarily focus on enhancing the `netapp/trident` project's functionality and maintainability. They refactored a bash script related to a chroot host wrapper, improving code clarity and debugging. The user also addressed a race condition in the `o.volumes` cache, directly impacting volume management within the storage orchestrator. Furthermore, they implemented crucial changes for volume resize operations across various storage drivers, ensuring accurate size detection before modifications. These contributions highlight the user's focus on improving the efficiency and stability of the storage orchestration layer.
containersnetapp-publicorchestratorazure-blob-storagedocker
openstack/glance
Sep 2011 - Mar 2014
OpenStack Image Management (Glance). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:43 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the OpenStack Glance project by implementing features, fixing bugs, and refactoring code. Their work included adding new image properties, such as `min_disk` and `min_ram`, and filtering capabilities. They also addressed issues related to image handling, like dealing with deleted images in requests. Moreover, the user implemented notifications for image transfers, contributing to bandwidth usage tracking.
openstack
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