Michael Chase-salerno
Open Source Developer - OpenStack at IBM
New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Chase-salerno is a seasoned open source developer and infrastructure engineer with 15+ years delivering Linux, Unix, and high-performance clustering solutions, now focused on cloud orchestration for OpenStack at IBM. His career spans hands-on systems management, provisioning, and cluster software—from early work on RS/6000 SP and OSCAR/SystemInstaller to current contributions around Heat, JuJu, and TOSCA. He combines deep platform expertise with client-facing architecture experience, having designed cross-platform solutions and served as an on-site liaison for high-stakes production issues. A former Army radio teletype operator with security clearance, he brings disciplined operational rigor and practical troubleshooting skills to distributed systems. Based in New York, he remains an active participant in open source communities, favoring pragmatic tools that scale in enterprise environments.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at SUNY New Paltz
Github Skills (49)
container10
docker10
ecosystem10
docker-image10
vagrantfile10
docker-compose10
golang10
ibm-cloud9
cookbook9
assemble9
vms9
virtualbox9
go9
vcenter9
orchestration9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mchasal/cdhelpers
Mar 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:5 pushes in 2 years 6 months
mchasal/deploy-ibm-cloud-private
Mar 2018 - Sep 2018
Instructions and Code required to install IBM Cloud Private
Contributions:14 pushes, 8 branches in 5 months
ibm-cloudinstructionscloudibmprivate-cloud
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