Anthony D'atri is a seasoned storage and datacenter leader with over a decade building and operating large-scale Ceph clusters, published author of Learning Ceph, Second Edition, and an active contributor and documentation lead for the Ceph project. He combines deep hands-on expertise—from BIOS and firmware troubleshooting through OS tuning and automation—to drive reliability, capacity optimization, and cost-effective infrastructure decisions (he reclaimed millions in resources at past employers). Known for turning tribal knowledge into clear, production-ready documentation and tooling, Anthony bridges ops and engineering, mentors teams, and leads incident response and vendor remediation for elusive hardware defects. His work spans startups to enterprise, and he remains uniquely engaged in upstream open source, improving both code and docs for one of the most widely used distributed storage systems.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Applied Math CS track, BS Applied Math CS track at Carnegie Mellon University
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Contributions:4344 reviews, 145 commits, 1458 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Anthony contributed to the Ceph documentation by correcting technical documentation. They made corrections and improvements to documentation related to erasure coding, block device and other areas, emphasizing clarity, proper capitalization, and updated references. This suggests a focus on improving the readability and accuracy of the project's documentation. The user demonstrated a strong understanding of technical writing best practices.
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