Leonid Chernin
Sr. Software Engineer , RT, Embedded at IBM
Israel
Summary
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RockstarLeonid Chernin is a senior embedded and real-time software engineer with over 15 years designing and implementing telecom and storage systems, currently driving NVMe-over-Fabrics and Fibre Channel user-mode driver development at IBM Storage. He combines deep protocol expertise (Fibre Channel, NVMe, SCSI, Ethernet OAM, WiMAX) with hands-on RTOS and Linux multiprocessing experience, and a pragmatic UML-based OOD approach for complex state machines. Past roles at Mellanox, Alvarion and ECI reflect a strong background in high-performance networking, SW/HW integration and OAM/L2-L3 protocol design. Leonid is known for applying a unique FSM development concept to hard real-time and networking problems, improving reliability across handover, security and QoS features. Based in Israel, he brings a rare blend of low-level driver work and protocol architecture that accelerates storage and telecom product delivery.
2 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (52)
infiniband10
glusterfs10
vsphere10
kubernetes10
fat10
development-kit10
rdma10
iscsi10
nfs10
fuse10
openebs10
storage10
blob-storage10
hdfs10
vmware10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
leonidc/ceph
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Contributions:57 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 5 months
leonidc/ceph-nvmeof
Aug 2023 - Apr 2025
Service to provide Ceph storage over NVMe-oF protocol
Contributions:272 pushes, 55 branches in 1 year 7 months
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