Fernando Ferraz
Senior Software Engineer - OpenStack at Red Hat
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolFernando Ferraz is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in OpenStack storage, with over a decade of experience designing and maintaining Cinder and Manila drivers, and currently advancing storage integrations at Red Hat. He combines deep systems-level skills in Python, Java and C/C++, with practical expertise in storage networking protocols (iSCSI, FCP, NFS), virtualization and Linux operations to keep production clouds stable and performant. As a former Software Development Coordinator, he has led and scaled a Brazil-based team, owning releases, CI/CD pipelines (Zuul, Ansible) and people management processes. Notable open-source contributions include stabilizing NetApp SolidFire support in OpenStack Cinder—fixing failback, replication and migration issues that materially improved active/active behavior. He also brings past experience building distributed ingestion systems with HBase, Kafka and Spark and low-level hardware-failure detection tooling, giving him a rare blend of cloud-native storage, automation and low-level diagnostics.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Systems Analysis and Development, Systems Analysis and Development at Faculdade Uirapuru Superior
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (11)
cinder10
management10
data-migration10
openstack10
api10
volumes10
python10
apidoc10
iscsi9
error-handling9
testing8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
openstack/cinder
Jan 2020 - Jul 2021
OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Fernando contributed extensively to the NetApp SolidFire driver within the OpenStack Cinder project, addressing critical issues related to failover and replication. Their work focused on resolving failback problems after service restarts and enhancing active/active replication capabilities. The user also added support for storage-assisted migration and addressed several bugs, including timeout issues and the creation of duplicate volumes. Their contributions significantly improved the stability, reliability, and functionality of the SolidFire driver.
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