Chuck Short
Senior Member Of Technical Staff at Wind River
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolChuck Short is a senior systems engineer and software developer with 26 years of experience, currently a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Wind River in Ottawa. He is a long-standing Ubuntu core developer and OpenStack contributor, with over 1,000 commits since 2011 across projects like Nova, Cinder, Keystone and Glance, and notable work modernizing code for security and Python 3. Chuck’s expertise centers on virtualization—KVM, libvirt, LXC/LXD and OpenStack orchestration—having authored enduring components such as the libvirt LXC driver and nova-lxd. He combines deep operational experience (packaging, stable releases, triage) with upstream development, improving maintainability and security in large open-source stacks. Colleagues benefit from his pragmatic approach to porting legacy systems into cloud-native environments and his knack for quietly fixing thorny deployment issues.
26 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Algonquin College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
block-storage10
rest-api10
openstack10
python10
security10
nfs8
iscsi8
git7
meteor6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/cinder
Jul 2018 - Feb 2019
OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:55 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Chuck primarily contributed to the OpenStack Cinder project by enhancing the block storage functionality and improving the codebase's maintainability. Their work involved porting drivers to use privsep for improved security, replacing shell commands with Python implementations (e.g., `os.mkdir`), and enabling SSL verification for REST API calls. These changes addressed security vulnerabilities and modernized the codebase, focusing on operational efficiency and secure communication. Several commits were also focused on fixing deprecation warnings and correcting typos.
cinderblockchainopendevblock-storageopenstack
lxc/nova-lxd
Mar 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 185 PRs, 203 pushes in 1 year 2 months
lxdopenstack-novaopenstacknova
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