Jean Roquesalane
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Dell Technologies
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolJean Roquesalane is a Senior Principal Software Engineer based in Paris with over a decade of experience designing and integrating storage and cloud-native solutions for Dell Technologies. He specializes in OpenStack and software-defined storage, leading engineering efforts to incorporate Dell’s storage portfolio (PowerStore, PowerFlex, PowerMax) into RHOSP and cloud platforms while mentoring teams and driving cross-vendor partnerships. A hands-on contributor to the OpenStack Cinder project, he implemented NVMe/TCP support and active/active driver enhancements, showing deep protocol and driver expertise beyond typical architecture work. He blends field-facing consulting and pre-sales enablement with core engineering—troubleshooting customer cases across North America and representing Dell in OpenStack community meetings. With roots in systems and storage administration dating to the early 2000s, he brings practical operational experience to complex automation and NFV integration challenges.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
DUT, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, DUT, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at UPPANational Conservatory of Arts and CraftsEMC² training class
English
Github Skills (10)
storage10
service-provider10
driver10
service-design10
python10
openstack-cinder10
iscsi8
fc8
documentation7
rest-api7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/cinder
Nov 2021 - Sep 2022
OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jean primarily contributed to the Dell EMC PowerStore storage driver within the OpenStack Cinder project, adding NVMe/TCP support and making necessary modifications to the adapter. They also addressed issues related to PowerFlex driver and self-signed certificates. Further contributions included documentation updates for the PowerMax driver and adding active/active support. The user demonstrates an understanding of storage protocols and driver development within the OpenStack ecosystem.
cinderblockchainopendevblock-storageopenstack
jproque-dell/JetPack
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:114 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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