Nir Soffer
Software Architect - ODF at IBM
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolNir Soffer is a pragmatic software architect and self-taught systems programmer with 16 years of experience specializing in backend, storage and virtualization infrastructure. He currently leads disaster-recovery work for OpenShift Data Foundation at IBM, after several senior engineering roles at Red Hat where he shaped storage management for oVirt/RHV and maintained the VDSM daemon. Nir is comfortable working across the stack—from C and Python internals to Go-based tooling and DevOps—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like CPython, minikube and oVirt. He excels at rescuing and modernizing legacy systems, eliminating hairy bugs, and improving reliability and performance at scale, with a proven track record of storage and VM-related optimizations. Colleagues rely on him for clear, test-driven solutions and for making complex low-level behavior observable and maintainable in production.
16 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (84)
kvm10
performance-analytics10
python10
go-language10
testing10
http10
process-management10
c1110
c1710
ovirt10
javas10
profiling10
file-processing10
backend10
cobra10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
oVirt/vdsm
Sep 2013 - Nov 2022
The Virtual Desktop Server Manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:644 reviews, 2756 commits, 168 PRs in 9 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Nir primarily focused on improving the stability and maintainability of the VDSM (Virtual Desktop Server Manager) software. They made several code changes related to handling iSCSI target connections, network monitoring, and the management of block storage. Their contributions involved refactoring existing code, addressing potential race conditions, and ensuring that the codebase was robust against various error scenarios, including timeouts and failures related to low-level storage operations. These contributions span both back-end development and system administration/DevOps aspects.
vdivmsvirtual-desktopwindowselectron
spf13/cobra
Aug 2023 - Nov 2024
A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 6 PRs, 38 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Nir primarily contributed to enhancing the functionality and user experience of the `cobra` CLI library, particularly concerning its use as a plugin for other command-line tools. Their work focused on modifying the command display name for plugins, fixing help text inconsistencies, and improving the `--version` flag handling for plugins. They addressed issues in the help messages and version output, specifically ensuring that plugin-related information is correctly displayed and improving the usability of `cobra` for developers creating CLI plugins.
go-clibusyboxposix-compliant-flagscommandlinecli
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