Alexey Khodos
Software Engineer at Nexenta by DDN
Walnut Creek, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexey Khodos is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in cloud and storage integrations using Python, Go, and JavaScript. Based in Walnut Creek, CA, he has deep platform expertise across Linux, OpenStack, Docker, and Kubernetes, and has built production CSI drivers and storage backends (NFS, iSCSI, Lustre) for enterprises like Nexenta and DDN. He contributed to OpenStack Cinder and Manila—implementing NexentaStor drivers, unit tests, and CI that runs against upstream Gerrit—which shows practical open-source engineering at infrastructure scale. Alexey also designs public storage APIs and SDKs, enabling third-party integrations and automated deployment via Ansible and Docker plugins. Early work in web apps and Django ORM/REST complemented his systems focus, giving him full-stack fluency from APIs to hypervisor-adjacent storage. He combines hands-on driver development with a knack for reliable CI/automation that keeps complex storage integrations maintainable in production.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Kuban State University (KubSU)
Русский, Английский
Github Skills (10)
cinder10
service-provider10
openstack10
service-design10
python10
iscsi10
nfs9
unit-testing9
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/cinder
Jun 2015 - Oct 2017
OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Alexey primarily contributed to the development of NexentaStor backend drivers for Cinder, the OpenStack block storage service. The contributions involve implementing both NFS and iSCSI drivers, enabling integration with NexentaStor 5 appliances. The commits also included unit tests for the iSCSI driver, as well as enhancements related to volume cloning and snapshot management. The user demonstrated strong knowledge in integrating storage solutions with OpenStack.
block-storageopenstack
DDNStorage/IntelliFlash-csi-file-driver
Mar 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:6 releases, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 10 months
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