James Lu
Senior Software Engineer at SUSE
Taoyuan City, Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Lu is a Senior Software Engineer based in Taoyuan City, Taiwan, with roughly a decade of storage domain experience and nearly eight years of Python expertise. He has progressed from engineering roles at Quanta to technical and project leadership positions before joining SUSE, blending hands-on backend development with people and project management. His open-source work on Longhorn’s manager highlights deep familiarity with distributed block storage, backup/restore resilience, replica scheduling, and node operations at production scale. Comfortable toggling between debugging subtle storage failures and implementing new features, he focuses on robustness and operational reliability. James holds a Master’s in Computer Science from National Chiao Tung University and brings a pragmatic, systems-first approach to building and hardening storage software.
6 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at National Chiao Tung UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at National Central UniversityFTHS
Chinese, English
Github Skills (15)
led-controller10
storage10
kubernetes10
longhorn10
re-store10
backup10
filesystem10
controls10
go10
controller-advice10
controller10
kubernetes-pods10
error-handling9
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
longhorn/longhorn-manager
May 2022 - Dec 2022
Millions and millions of volumes orchestrated
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:933 reviews, 41 commits, 127 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the Longhorn manager, focusing on bug fixes and feature enhancements related to backup and restore functionalities, replica management, and node operations. Their work involved modifying code across various controllers, including backup, engine, and volume controllers, addressing issues such as backup failures, replica scheduling, and volume restoration. They also implemented features to improve the resilience and functionality of the Longhorn storage system.
pythonvolumesdata-protectionpersistentstorage
mantissahz/longhorn-share-manager
May 2022 - Apr 2025
Contributions:126 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 10 months
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