Elvira Ruiz
Software Engineer at Red Hat
Spain
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolElvira Ruiz is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building cloud networking infrastructure, currently contributing to Red Hat’s OpenStack and OpenShift Operator efforts from Spain. She focuses on Neutron’s OVN backend—removing legacy OVS support, modernizing ovsdbapp usage, resolving MTU and MAC learning issues, and improving network logging—demonstrating deep hands-on expertise in production networking. At Red Hat she also bridges teams and serves as a user advocate with OpenStack leadership, blending technical delivery with cross-team coordination. Educated in software engineering, big data, and AI, she brings a research-informed approach to pragmatic cloud operations and open source collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
University of SevilleBig Data and Security Semesters, Ingeniería de software, Big Data and Security Semesters, Ingeniería de software at Hogeschool van Amsterdam
English, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
openvswitch10
service-provider10
openstack10
service-design10
python10
networking10
database9
testing9
unit-test9
database-api9
unit-testing9
databases9
cicd8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/neutron
Nov 2020 - Nov 2022
OpenStack Networking (Neutron). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Elvira primarily contributed to the OpenStack Neutron project, focusing on the OVN (Open Virtual Network) backend. Their work involved modifying existing code to remove support for older versions of Open vSwitch (OVS), updating methods to use new functions from the ovsdbapp library, removing constants, and fixing issues related to MAC learning. Further contributions involved the creation of network logging configurations, the resolution of MTU issues, and several bug fixes. These changes suggest a focus on maintaining and improving the OVN integration within Neutron.
ospfopenflownetwork-automationnetworkingsdn
elvgarrui/blog
Jun 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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