Neha Ojha
Program Director at IBM
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNeha Ojha is a Program Director based in San Francisco with a decade of experience leading globally distributed engineering teams building the core of IBM’s Software Defined Storage, including RADOS, Crimson, BlueStore, and Telemetry. An elected member of the Ceph Executive Council and former RADOS technical lead, she blends deep systems-level expertise with open-source stewardship. Her hands-on contributions to the flagship ceph/ceph repository and the Ceph Benchmarking Tool have focused on stability, performance, and practical tooling—fixing deadlocks, improving object handling, and enabling JSON benchmark outputs. Neha’s career spans technical leadership roles at IBM and Red Hat after graduate research at UC Santa Cruz, reflecting a steady progression from contributor to program-level ownership. She is notable for pairing rigorous back-end engineering with community governance, ensuring production-grade code meets the needs of a broad open-source ecosystem.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Networks, Master's degree Computer Networks at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Technology Electronics, Bachelor of Technology Electronics at West Bengal University of Technology, KolkataHill Top SchoolUniversity of California Santa Cruz
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Github Skills (18)
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python10
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storage10
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data-storage10
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distributed-file-system10
cprogramming-language10
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ceph/cbt
Sep 2017 - Oct 2021
The Ceph Benchmarking Tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 21 commits, 16 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Neha Ojha's contributions focused on enhancing the Ceph Benchmarking Tool (cbt). She added functionality to parse benchmark output and store it in JSON format. Further, she refactored the benchmark code to remove directory hierarchies for storing results and kept mode in the result hierarchy. Additionally, she worked on integrating and configuring the cosbench tool within cbt.
benchmarkbenchmarkingceph
ceph/ceph
Apr 2017 - Dec 2022
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1230 reviews, 934 commits, 690 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Neha's contributions primarily involve modifying and refactoring code within the Ceph distributed storage platform. They addressed several bug fixes related to features such as blocklisting, journal, trash, and the osdmaptool. Their work focused on enhancing the system's stability, performance, and functionality by addressing issues related to deadlocks, incorrect object handling, and redundant logging. The user also made adjustments to documentation.
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