Avishay Traeger
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolAvishay Traeger is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 26 years of experience designing cloud-native, storage and virtualization systems from research prototypes to enterprise production. Based in Israel, he combines hands-on system architecture with deep distributed-systems and storage expertise gained at Red Hat, Stratoscale and IBM, and holds a PhD-level research background. He has led on-prem AWS-compatible cloud architecture, storage R&D and core OpenStack Cinder contributions—adding enterprise drivers, CHAP iSCSI support and production-grade features like volume migration and replication. Avishay pairs product-minded API-first design with practical implementation, customer engagement and even patent management, and his Comprestimator utility and academic publications reflect a rare blend of measurable tooling impact and scholarly rigor.
26 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Queens CollegePhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Stony Brook University
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (9)
fiber10
unit-testing10
storage10
driver10
python10
iscsi10
fibers10
ssh9
openstack9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/cinder
Nov 2012 - Feb 2014
OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:70 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Avishay contributed to the IBM Storwize and SVC volume driver, focusing on implementing and improving features related to storage management. Their work included adding a driver for IBM Storwize and SVC storage, including unit tests and a management simulator. The user also improved test coverage and fixed bugs within the driver, demonstrating a commitment to quality and stability. Furthermore, the user integrated CHAP support for iSCSI connections.
block-storageopenstack
openstack/python-cinderclient
Sep 2012 - Jan 2014
OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder) Client. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Contributions:12 commits in 1 year 4 months
block-storageopenstack
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