Blaine Gardner
Senior Advisory Systems And Software Engineer at N/A
Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolBlaine Gardner is a Senior Advisory Systems and Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and shipping storage and cloud-native systems from embedded devices to Kubernetes clusters. He has led containerization efforts for Ceph at SUSE, helped architect OpenShift Container Storage at Red Hat, and now advises on systems and software at IBM, blending low-level engineering with cluster-scale ops. A top contributor and maintainer on projects like ceph/ceph-container and Rook’s Ceph backend, he focuses on reliable build/deploy automation, CI-driven integration testing, and decoupling complex components for independent release. Blaine is known for organizing cross-functional teams—engineers, writers, legal, and installers—to take products from prototype to production. His background in embedded telemetry and high-performance storage gives him a rare end-to-end perspective on performance, reliability, and deployability. Based in Colorado, he regularly speaks at open source conferences and brings a practical, documentation-minded approach that surfaces seldom-seen operational constraints early in design.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSCompE, Computer Engineering, 3.94, BSCompE, Computer Engineering, 3.94 at Purdue University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (15)
ceph10
kubernetes10
automation10
bash10
docker10
automations10
containerization10
dockers10
build-automation10
kubernetes-pods10
githubaction-workflow9
makefile9
github-ci9
gnu-make9
python8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
ceph/ceph-container
Jul 2017 - Aug 2022
Docker files and images to run Ceph in containers
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 102 commits, 89 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Blaine primarily focused on improving the build and deployment processes for the Ceph container images. Their contributions include fixing issues related to symlink handling in different Ceph versions, adding support for new operating system flavors, and implementing features for bootstrapping RBDs within Kubernetes. Furthermore, the user revamped and refactored the staging process, enhancing the clarity and maintainability of the build environment. They also introduced integration tests to ensure the build system's reliability.
containersdocker-imagedocker-filesdockerceph
rook/nfs
Jul 2021 - Jun 2022
Rook storage provider for NFS
Contributions:6 reviews, 20 commits, 13 PRs in 11 months
nfsproviderstorage-providerrookstorage
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