Carl Pecinovsky - Beekeeper at IBM

Carl Pecinovsky

Beekeeper at IBM

Rochester, Minnesota, United States

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Carl Pecinovsky is a senior software engineer with over a decade of experience building storage and virtualization features for cloud and enterprise platforms, currently leading compute and storage development for Virtual Private Cloud in IBM's Gen2 Public Cloud. His background spans OpenStack (notably contributions to Cinder), PowerVM, z/VM, KVM/libvirt, and deep Fibre Channel storage expertise including NPIV, Storwize, and EMC VMAX integrations. Comfortable across Python, Go, and Java, he blends low-level systems work with product-facing delivery and has a track record of fixing subtle storage bugs and enabling volume migration scenarios in open-source projects. Based in Rochester, Minnesota, he pairs his technical career with stewardship of a family beekeeping business focused on local honey and pollinator habitat—an unusual real-world practice that informs his pragmatic, systems-oriented approach.

10 years of coding experience

B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Iowa State University

University of Minnesota Twin Cities

A.A. & A.S., LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES, GENERAL STUDIES AND HUMANITIES, A.A. & A.S., LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES, GENERAL STUDIES AND HUMANITIES at York College

Github Skills (10)

cinder10

openstack10

python10

back-end-development10

error-handling9

api8

service-management8

apidoc8

testing7

servicenow7

Programming languages (1)

Python

Github contributions (2)

openstack/cinder

Apr 2016 - Jan 2018

OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:6 commits in 1 year 9 months

Contributions summary:Carl's commits primarily focus on bug fixes and improvements within the OpenStack Cinder project, specifically addressing issues related to character encoding in request handling. They also modified code to correctly coordinate the start of a volume service and fixed an exception handling problem related to the Storwize storage driver. These changes reflect a deep understanding of the project's internal workings and storage integration. Furthermore, they contributed to the Storwize driver, adding volume name handling capabilities for migration scenarios.

cinderblockchainopendevblock-storageopenstack

powervm/pypowervm

Jul 2016 - Jul 2016

Python library for interacting with the PowerVM API

Contributions:2 commits in 1 day

python-libraryapipythonmulticorepowervm

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