Freddy Rolland
Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolFreddy Rolland is a Senior Software Engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native, virtualization and network-management systems, now focusing on Golang and Kubernetes at NVIDIA. He has driven end-to-end features for OpenShift’s assisted installer and contributed core storage and virtualization capabilities to oVirt and KubeVirt projects, blending backend development with DevOps and test automation. Freddy has led small engineering teams throughout his career, pairing pragmatic technical leadership with deep expertise in storage, networking protocols (SNMP, SIP/VoIP), and Linux-based systems. An active open-source maintainer and conference speaker, he brings practical experience shipping both SaaS and operator-based deployments and improving reliability through tests and error-handling improvements. Beyond engineering, he volunteers in tech education and community events, reflecting a long-standing commitment to mentoring and growing the open-source ecosystem. Notably, his contributions span low-level storage operations (LUN/multipath resizing) to cloud installer plumbing, showing rare breadth from device management to Kubernetes installers.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Sciences, BA, Computer Sciences at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
English, French, Hebrew
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Github Skills (35)
api-rest10
kubernetes10
back-end-development10
python10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
lvm10
storage10
authentication10
java10
ovirt10
blockdevice10
data-storage10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/assisted-service
Jul 2020 - Jan 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:423 reviews, 186 commits, 195 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Freddy's contributions focused on enhancing the OpenShift assisted-service backend, including passing pull secret tokens as environment variables for authentication, and improving error handling and security. They also implemented features related to the Agent Cluster Install, adding API for host registration and management. Moreover, the user worked on incorporating proxy settings within the system's configuration.
oVirt/vdsm
Mar 2015 - Apr 2019
The Virtual Desktop Server Manager
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:135 commits in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Freddy contributed significantly to the `vdsm` repository, focusing on enhancements related to storage domain management and block device handling. Their work included implementing a new `resizePV` verb and adding support for resizing storage domains after LUN resizing, adding capabilities for managing disk size. The user also added support for multipath map resizing and included additional checks to verify domain health, improving the robustness and functionality of the virtual desktop server manager. The commits show a deep understanding of storage management concepts.
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