Angela Smith is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building and leading microservices and cloud-native storage solutions in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has deep, hands-on expertise in OpenStack Cinder—contributing backend fixes and performance improvements to the widely used openstack/cinder project—and in Fibre Channel zoning, Neutron networking plugins, and enterprise firmware. At Brocade and Broadcom she shipped features across server software, SMI-S agents, and Linux firmware, blending C, Java, and distributed systems design. Known for pragmatic performance tuning and hardware integration, she often focuses on stability and protocol-level fixes that quietly improve large-scale storage deployments.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at California State University - East Bay
OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:14 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Angela focused on enhancing the Brocade Fibre Channel (FC) zone driver within the OpenStack Cinder project. Their work involved fixing bugs related to SAN lookup services, optimizing performance by removing unnecessary checks, and implementing support for custom zone name prefixes and virtual fabrics. They also addressed issues related to HTTP sessions and initiator zone updates, contributing to improved stability and functionality of the storage management system.
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