Michael Fritch
Software Engineer at SUSE
Springville, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Fritch is a seasoned software engineer with over a decade of experience and six years focused in his current role at SUSE, bringing deep expertise in back-end systems and DevOps. He has held technical leadership roles at Cisco and Synamedia and contributed to enterprise storage and infrastructure across NetIQ and Novell. An active contributor to the prominent open-source Ceph project, he improved Cephadm orchestration, added rigorous type checks, and strengthened service modules for NFS, MDS, and RGW—work that reflects both code hygiene and operational automation. Based in Springville, Utah, he combines pragmatic engineering with systems-level thinking to make distributed storage more robust and maintainable. Colleagues describe him as a detail-oriented developer who deliberately bridges development and operations to reduce friction in production environments.
6 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (15)
ceph10
storage10
distributed-file-system10
devops10
back-end-development10
python10
cloud-storage10
nfs9
orchestration9
orchestra9
system-administration8
dockers7
test-automation7
docker7
configuration-management7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ceph/ceph
Oct 2019 - Oct 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:594 reviews, 780 commits, 225 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the Cephadm module, enhancing its functionality and robustness. They focused on type checking improvements and code cleanup within the service modules, specifically for NFS, MDS, RGW and other services. Their work included adding return types to functions and ensuring service specification type matching. Additionally, the user demonstrated DevOps skills by adding commands related to the orchestration of services like setting the monitor's public network, managing host stops and removing keyrings, and generally improved the build/test system.
fusefile-storagecephstorageopenebs
mgfritch/ceph
Oct 2019 - Mar 2024
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Contributions:989 pushes, 467 branches, 1 comment in 4 years 5 months
blob-storagefile-storagentfsazure-blob-storageceph
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