Nir Magnezi
Software Engineering Manager at NVIDIA
Israel
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Top SchoolNir Magnezi is a software engineering manager with 12 years of experience building and leading cloud-native and infrastructure projects, currently managing engineering at NVIDIA in Israel. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Python and Go, proven across OpenStack Neutron and Octavia contributions and Kubernetes/virtualization work at Red Hat. A prolific open-source contributor and past Red Hat top inventor with several patents, he combines backend systems design, DevOps automation and networking know-how (OpenStack, KVM/QEMU, OVS, HAProxy). Nir is comfortable moving between code and operational delivery—fixing low-level networking bugs, improving amphora agent portability across Linux distros, and hardening auth flows for assisted-service. He is a self-directed problem solver who pairs practical engineering with product-minded leadership to ship reliable, scalable platform features.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Practical Engineer Computer Science, Practical Engineer Computer Science at ORT Hermelin CollegeB.Sc Computer Science, B.Sc Computer Science at The Open University of Israel
Hebrew, English
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Github Skills (35)
kubernetes10
docker10
python10
apidoc10
user-authentication10
authentication10
swagger10
networking10
dockers10
openstack10
api10
service-design10
kubernetes-pods10
openvswitch10
service-provider10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/assisted-service
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:1027 reviews, 217 commits, 278 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Nir's contributions primarily revolve around authentication and authorization features, specifically related to cloud.redhat.com. They implemented and enhanced an auth handler, integrated Swagger responses, and addressed API key security. The user also made changes to configuration files and created infrastructure-related files for deployment, including a configuration map, and implemented various improvements to tests.
openstack/octavia
Jun 2015 - Jul 2019
Load Balancing as a Service (LBaaS) for OpenStack. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:43 commits in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Nir contributed to the OpenStack Octavia project by addressing issues related to the amphora agent and its interaction with the operating system. They fixed bugs related to the plugin for non-Ubuntu distributions and improved the image support for various Linux flavors, specifically CentOS, Fedora, and RHEL. Further, they refactored the amphora agent to use classes and added features to the Devstack plugin. Additionally, they made updates to the devstack plugin to leverage openstackclient for service interaction.
boshcloud-foundryopenshiftload-balancingcloudfoundry
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