Damiano Cipriani
Senior Software Engineer at SUSE
Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Summary
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RockstarDamiano Cipriani is a Senior Software Engineer based in Florence, Italy, with four years of professional experience building high-performance storage systems. At SUSE he designs and develops a Longhorn backend engine using the SPDK framework, focusing on low-latency block storage and efficient data operations. He has contributed to the notable open-source spdk project by adding SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE support and shallow-copy RPCs for logical volumes, showing deep familiarity with blob-level allocation and io_unit management. Damiano combines practical systems-level coding with an eye for tooling, having extended spdk_dd to exercise newly implemented seek semantics. He brings a pragmatic, hands-on approach to solving complex storage problems and thrives on improving performance and observability in production-grade storage stacks.
3 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
c1710
blob-storage10
pdk10
c1110
blob-store10
nvme3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
spdk/spdk
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
Storage Performance Development Kit
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 commits, 8 comments, 6 issues in 10 days
Contributions summary:Damiano primarily contributed to the storage performance development kit by implementing and integrating functionality for seek operations within the virtual block device (vbdev) logical volume (lvol) layer. Their work involved adding support for SEEK_DATA and SEEK_HOLE io types, which required utilizing existing blob functions to locate allocated and unallocated io_units. Additionally, the user added a function to retrieve the number of io_units per cluster and worked on the spdk_dd tool to incorporate data and hole management, utilizing the newly implemented seek operations. The user also added an RPC interface to start a shallow copy of a read only lvol.
development-kitvagrantperformancestoragevirtualbox
DamiaSan/longhorn-instance-manager
Mar 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:36 pushes, 8 branches in 10 months
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