David Kranz
Graduated From Full-time Work
Arlington, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Kranz is an experienced engineering leader and systems researcher with 14+ years of industry experience and deep expertise in parallel, distributed, and cloud computing. A former Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat and long-time OpenStack contributor, he has hands-on experience improving cloud testing (notably Tempest) and driving reliability across special-purpose cloud projects. His career spans roles from VP Engineering to principal research scientist at MIT, marrying production-grade engineering with academic rigor from a Yale PhD in computer science. Now retired from full-time work and based in Arlington, MA, he volunteers and applies his technical breadth to make practical improvements in open-source infrastructure. An uncommon thread in his background is sustained focus on testing and QA automation for large-scale clouds, reflecting a pragmatism that complements his research credentials.
14 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Mathematics/Physics, BA, Mathematics/Physics at Swarthmore CollegePhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Yale University
Github Skills (12)
pest10
debug10
openstack10
temper10
tempo10
python10
test-automation10
rest-test9
api-testing9
rest-api9
unit-testing9
api-rest9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/tempest
Jan 2012 - Jul 2015
OpenStack Testing (Tempest) of an existing cloud. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:132 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the testing of the OpenStack Tempest project, fixing typos and improving the functionality of the tests by resolving reported bugs. Their contributions included fixing issues related to floating IPs, keypairs, and server metadata, and adding tests for the same. The user also updated the testing infrastructure by adding or removing tests and skipping the ones that are failing due to bugs.
testingcloud-foundryinfrastructurecloudopendev
redhat-openstack/tempest
Feb 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:98 commits, 3 branches in 1 year 6 months
pull-requestspatchesreview
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