J Ivancich
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJ Ivancich is a Principal Software Engineer with 13+ years focused on distributed storage and backend systems, currently working on IBM Storage Systems after a long tenure at Red Hat where he drove core Ceph radosgw improvements. He combines deep academic rigor—a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan—with practical engineering, having contributed bug fixes, performance optimizations, and testing/deployment enhancements to the widely used Ceph storage platform. His research background in neural models of learning and memory and interest in the Clarity Mechanism give him a rare interdisciplinary perspective on cognition, teaching, and system design. A seasoned educator, he has designed and taught courses across languages from Ruby and Java to C++ and UNIX, and has produced well-reviewed Ruby training materials. He brings hands-on curiosity to mentoring and family projects alike, actively enjoying collaborative hardware/software learning with his nieces through Arduino builds. Known for bridging theory and production, he excels at turning complex research insights into reliable, scalable storage solutions.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering at University of MichiganThe University of Utah
Github Skills (12)
distributed-systems10
object-storage10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
testing8
devops8
scripting7
apache-arrow7
script7
json7
bash7
versioning7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ceph/ceph
May 2016 - Jan 2023
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:354 reviews, 667 commits, 613 PRs in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:J primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Ceph storage platform, focusing on the radosgw component. Their work included bug fixes, performance optimizations, and feature enhancements related to object storage. Furthermore, the user implemented improvements to testing infrastructure and deployment. Several commits addressed issues in bucket listing, management, and metadata handling, highlighting their involvement in core storage operations.
fusefile-storagecephstorageopenebs
ivancich/ceph-fork
Mar 2017 - Mar 2025
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Contributions:1 PR, 1221 pushes, 685 branches in 8 years 1 month
file-storagecephglusterfscloud-storageansible-collections
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