Melanie Witt
Principal Software Engineer at OpenStack
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolMelanie Witt is a Principal Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building cloud infrastructure, currently shaping Red Hat’s OpenStack compute platform. A long-time OpenStack community contributor and past Nova PTL/core reviewer, she blends hands-on backend development with rigorous test automation to improve cloud reliability and API correctness. Her contributions to high-profile OpenStack projects (Nova, python-openstackclient, Tempest) include bug fixes, feature work, and test suites that tightened quota enforcement, migration handling, and volume/compute edge cases. Prior roles at Yahoo and early work on wireless data systems for space platforms give her a pragmatic systems perspective that spans production-scale services to low-level embedded reliability. Colleagues rely on her for thoughtful refactors and precise fixes that reduce flakiness in large distributed-test environments.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
cloud-computing10
back-end-development10
python10
testing10
test-framework10
pest10
openstack10
temper10
database-management10
tempo10
api-testing10
test-automation10
unit-testing9
git9
apidoc9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/nova
Mar 2016 - Oct 2022
OpenStack Compute (Nova). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:364 commits in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Melanie primarily worked on the OpenStack Compute (Nova) project, contributing to bug fixes and code refactoring. Their changes included fixing functional tests, refactoring tests to use mock, and addressing issues related to volume attachment, data migration, and quota enforcement. The user also added new features such as adding user_id to instance_mappings table and added CLI and API level code to implement functionality.
openstack
openstack/python-openstackclient
Jun 2019 - Nov 2022
Client for OpenStack services. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer / QA Engineer
Back-end Developer / QA EngineerContributions:8 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Melanie contributed to the OpenStack client, primarily focusing on enhancing server management functionalities. Their work includes implementing changes to the server list and show commands, ensuring accurate display of server information, especially for servers booted from volumes. They also corrected REST API response fields for the `/os-migrations` API and fixed test classes for server migration, improving the consistency and correctness of the client's output. Additionally, the user added functionality to show "Forced Down" compute service status and addressed issues with server event listing for deleted servers.
openstackclient-tools
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