Barak Rofman
Software Engineer at Red Hat
Nus, Valle d'Aosta, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolBarak Rofman is a software engineer with six years of experience specializing in storage and distributed file systems, currently maintaining the DHT component of GlusterFS at Red Hat. He codes primarily in C on Linux, leads performance-driven redesigns, and is the architect of the Redant automation/test framework used for large-scale storage validation. Previously he stabilized SMB storage servers and rebuilt a company's CI testing infrastructure, cutting test times by roughly 90%, demonstrating a strong focus on reliability and automation. An active contributor to the well-known glusterfs open-source project, he focuses on bug elimination, crash prevention, logging improvements and refactors that increase maintainability. Based in Italy with a mechanical engineering background from Technion and prior systems engineering experience in the IDF, he brings cross-disciplinary problem solving and operational rigor to complex distributed systems. Notably, he reports financial independence from passive income, allowing selective focus on technically interesting or high-impact work.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Hebrew, English
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Github Skills (18)
glusterfs10
debug10
filesystem10
storage10
linux10
distributed-systems10
c1110
verity10
c1710
server10
eclipse6
callback6
go6
epoll6
kubernetes-pods6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gluster/glusterfs
Aug 2019 - Mar 2021
Gluster Filesystem : Build your distributed storage in minutes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 reviews, 94 commits, 29 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Barak primarily focuses on addressing Coverity and other software issues within the Gluster Filesystem project. They are fixing potential bugs by modifying code to prevent seg-faults, memory leaks, and logical errors that could lead to crashes. Their contributions extend to improving logging and refactoring code for enhanced readability and maintainability, impacting several core components like the posix, cloudsync, utime, and cli components of the system.
erasure-codingstoragepersistent-storagedistributed-storagefuse-filesystem
BarakSason/noobaa-operator
May 2021 - Dec 2021
Operator for NooBaa - object data service for hybrid and multi cloud environments :cloud: :wrench:
Contributions:74 pushes, 10 branches in 6 months
5gnoobaaoperatorovirtkubernetes
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