Kyle Bader
Chief Architect, Data And AI, Ceph
Seal Beach, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarKyle Bader is a seasoned architect specializing in distributed storage, networking, and data infrastructure with 12+ years building and tuning large-scale Ceph deployments across cloud and on-prem environments. Currently Chief Architect for Data and AI (Ceph) at IBM, he brings pragmatic, pager-ready designs informed by deep hands-on experience from DreamHost to Red Hat and Inktank. Kyle blends systems-level tuning, hardware and network sizing, and performance guidance for stateful workloads—Kafka, Spark, databases and ML—into repeatable reference architectures that scale to multi-petabyte clusters. An active open-source contributor and maintainer of Ceph tooling (including practical improvements to the Ceph Benchmarking Tool), he favors optimistic skepticism and engineering choices he’d trust at 3 a.m. based on real-world failure modes. Based in Seal Beach, he pairs product and engineering instincts to influence everything from consistency semantics to pricing tradeoffs.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (14)
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administrator10
bash10
administration10
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scripting9
automation9
automations9
yum8
git7
performance-testing6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ceph/cbt
Aug 2015 - Feb 2016
The Ceph Benchmarking Tool
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 20 PRs, 13 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily contributed to setting up and configuring the Ceph Benchmarking Tool (CBT) environment. Their work involved creating an installation script to install dependencies on RHEL/CentOS systems, incorporating external tools like fio and collectl. The user also addressed configuration issues, such as eliminating unnecessary requirements, removing problematic health checks, and removing the requirement for osd_ra for use_existing, thereby streamlining the benchmarking setup.
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mmgaggle/zgw
Oct 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:48 commits, 2 PRs, 50 pushes in 10 months
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