Ira Cooper
Principal Software Engineer at FlashGrid
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolIra Cooper is a Principal Software Engineer with over two decades of systems-level experience and a 13-year focused track record in infrastructure, storage, and networking. He architects and implements large-scale, highly available systems—from datacenter rollouts and 3PB Ceph clusters to Kubernetes and serverless prototypes—combining deep kernel/OS knowledge (Illumos, Solaris, FreeBSD, Linux) with modern cloud tooling (AWS, Terraform, Nomad, Consul, Kubernetes). A long-time Samba contributor and former illumos maintainer, he brings uncommon expertise in SMB protocol internals, ZFS/Gluster/Ceph integration, and production failure analysis. He’s led cross-continental teams at Red Hat and Akamai, and recently drives infrastructure software at FlashGrid, blending hands-on coding (C/C++, Java, Python, Rust-adjacent practices) with architectural leadership. Based in Boston, he pairs meticulous low-level troubleshooting with pragmatic cloud-native design, often surfacing subtle OS-level behaviors that improve system reliability.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Fellow - NDG Computer Science - Mathematics, Fellow - NDG Computer Science - Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBS Computer Science - Mathematics, BS Computer Science - Mathematics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (43)
database10
infiniband10
glusterfs10
kubernetes10
fat10
rdma10
nfs10
fuse10
openebs10
storage10
blob-storage10
hdfs10
smb10
data-exchange10
nvme10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ilc/vial-qmk
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
QMK fork with Vial-specific features.
Contributions:6 PRs, 228 pushes, 63 branches in 1 year
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