Kamoltat Sirivadhna
Senior Software Engineer at IBM
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKamoltat Sirivadhna is a Senior Software Engineer in Boston with nine years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, currently contributing at IBM. He specializes in back-end development and DevOps for storage infrastructure, with notable open-source work on Ceph—implementing global recovery events, stretch-cluster handling, and CI/test tooling improvements for teuthology. His background at Red Hat and IBM reflects deep familiarity with Python and C++ in production distributed storage environments, plus hands-on CI/CD and container-based local development setups. A Boston University MS graduate who has also taught undergraduate CS labs, he combines strong engineering chops with clear communication and mentoring experience. Beyond shipping features and fixes, he has driven better observability and failure-detection in test frameworks—helping make large open-source storage projects more robust and maintainable.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
GCE Advanced Level, GCE Advanced Level at Harrow International School BangkokMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.670, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.670 at Boston University
Github Skills (21)
docker10
python10
back-end-development10
distributed-systems10
dockers10
cicd10
ansible10
ceph10
ansible-galaxy10
devops10
storage9
distributed-file-system8
bash8
testing8
postgresql7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ceph/teuthology
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
Ceph test suite
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:108 reviews, 31 commits, 31 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Kamoltat primarily contributed to the repository by setting up and improving the development environment and CI/CD processes. This includes adding Dockerfiles and docker-compose scripts for local development setup, integrating tools such as paddles and pulpito. The user also made changes to the testing framework and documentation and incorporated features for improved machine monitoring and failure detection during testing. Additionally, the user refactored aspects of the project's logging and testing infrastructure, improving maintainability.
yangtestingcephfilemakersuite
ceph/ceph
Jun 2019 - Dec 2022
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:167 reviews, 198 commits, 268 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Kamoltat primarily contributed to the Ceph project by addressing issues related to the progress module, including implementing global recovery events and introducing functionality to turn the module on/off. Their work involved modifying Python scripts and configuration files, indicating back-end development expertise. Additionally, the user worked on adjusting the codebase for better handling of stretch clusters and optimizing the global recovery module. Furthermore, they are responsible for introducing various new flags and parameters that require code and documentation changes.
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