Benny Zlotnik
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Israel
Summary
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RockstarBenny Zlotnik is a Principal Software Engineer based in Israel with 11 years of experience building backend systems and storage-focused infrastructure at Red Hat. He has deep expertise in virtualized storage and orchestration—contributing core backend features, bug fixes, and testing improvements to the well-known oVirt VDSM project—and now drives work on Red Hat’s MTV/forklift team. His background includes modernizing ELK-based big data tooling, migrating legacy Java stacks to JPA/WebLogic, and leading SCM and CI migrations, demonstrating both systems-level depth and practical operational chops. Colleagues rely on him for improving reliability, handling complex exception and volume-management logic, and introducing measurable features like volume size metrics. Quietly pragmatic, he blends rigorous low-level problem solving with a steady track record of shipping maintainable, testable systems in large open-source projects.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (7)
storage10
python10
virtualization10
testing9
system-design9
software-design9
sys9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
oVirt/vdsm
Feb 2018 - May 2022
The Virtual Desktop Server Manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:60 reviews, 71 commits, 15 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Benny primarily contributed to the VDSM (Virtual Desktop Server Manager) project by implementing and refining core backend functionalities. Their work involved exception handling, volume chain management, and lease operations. Furthermore, the user addressed bugs and improved testing infrastructure by moving and extending test features. They also introduced a new feature for measuring volume sizes.
vdivmsvirtual-desktopwindowselectron
bennyz/bennyz.github.io
Sep 2019 - May 2023
Contributions:58 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 8 months
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