Michael Price
Consulting Member Of Technical Staff at Oracle
Wichita, Kansas, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Price is a seasoned backend-focused software engineer with over a decade of experience designing and building scalable, distributed Java, Python, and Go services for cloud and data center infrastructure. He specializes in control-plane APIs and compute-related systems, with hands-on contributions to high-profile open-source projects like Ansible and OpenStack Cinder where he improved storage drivers and module maintainability. At Oracle and previously NetApp he blends architecture and feature design (approximately 50% of his time) with deep implementation work and cross-organizational collaboration across block/object storage, compute, and telemetry domains. He is passionate about instrumentation, metrics, and making time-series data actionable, and routinely presents technical talks and mentors engineers to amplify team impact. A practical problem-solver, he often translates customer-focused domain knowledge into measurable, production-ready telemetry and automation.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Wichita State University
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Github Skills (26)
python10
back-end-development10
package-development10
plugin-development10
cinder10
openstack10
ansible10
netapp10
ansible-galaxy10
refactoring10
drupal-module10
iscsi9
apidoc8
api8
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/cinder
Jul 2015 - Sep 2017
OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on enhancing the E-Series driver within the OpenStack Cinder project. Their work involved implementing new features, specifically related to thin provisioning support and additional storage service catalog extra specs. Furthermore, the user addressed and resolved several bugs, including issues with volume extension and password updates. They also contributed to performance improvements and added support for consistency groups.
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ansible/ansible
Feb 2017 - Aug 2018
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 34 PRs, 72 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to refactoring NetApp E-Series modules within the Ansible framework. Their work involved migrating modules to utilize common module utilities and documentation fragments, enhancing code reusability and maintainability. Key changes included refactoring modules related to Asynchronous Mirror Groups, Volume Copy, Volume, Hosts, and LunMapping. The user also addressed specific issues, such as fixing the validate_certs parameter and removing default LUN numbers, demonstrating a focus on improving module functionality and addressing identified bugs.
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