Nahim De Souza
PhD Student at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolNahim De Souza is a software engineer and PhD student in AI at USP with 11 years of experience building low-level and cloud systems across embedded, datacenter and storage domains. He has shipped production C/EDK2 UEFI firmware tooling, POS payment libraries and backend microservices, and later focused on OpenStack back-end storage integrations—contributing important NetApp ONTAP replication and failover work to the widely used OpenStack Cinder project. Comfortable across C, C++, Python, Java and cloud-native tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD), he blends hands-on driver and firmware development with systems design and test automation. Based in São Paulo, he also has an academic track—MSc in Machine Learning and ongoing doctoral research—bringing a research-minded approach to practical reliability and interoperability challenges. Notably, his open-source contributions helped migrate ZAPI-based storage operations to REST in Cinder, improving Active/Active replication support for NetApp deployments.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor's Degree, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, Doctor's Degree, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence at USP - Universidade de São PauloBachelor's degree (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor's degree (BSc), Computer Science at Universidade Federal de São Carlos
French, Portuguese, English
Github Skills (6)
rest-api10
openstack10
python10
block-storage10
nfs8
iscsi8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/cinder
Nov 2021 - Aug 2022
OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Nahim primarily contributed to the NetApp ONTAP integration within the OpenStack Cinder project, focusing on block storage functionality. Their work involved bug fixes related to ONTAP version handling, specifically ensuring proper comparisons. They also implemented core functions migrating ZAPI-based requests to the REST API, covering volume replication and failover support for Active/Active configurations. The user's contributions directly improve the reliability and feature set of the NetApp storage driver.
cinderblockchainopendevblock-storageopenstack
nahimsouza/rosa-lang
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Rosa Programming Language Interpreter
Contributions:25 commits, 2 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 month
rustprogramming-languageinterpreterrosa
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