Pete Zaitcev
Senior Embedded Software Engineer at CesiumAstro
Round Rock, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolPete Zaitcev is a Senior Embedded Software Engineer with 26 years building kernel-level and cloud storage systems, now applying that depth to embedded aerospace at CesiumAstro. Long-tenured at Red Hat where he specialized in cloud infrastructure and storage (notably contributing stability and bug fixes to major OpenStack projects like Cinder and Swift), he blends low-level Linux/kernel expertise with distributed storage engineering. His early career spans Solaris kernel and VLSI tooling, giving him uncommon fluency across hardware-near firmware and modern cloud services. Based in Round Rock, Texas, he’s known for pragmatic code quality improvements and test stability work that quietly harden critical open-source projects.
26 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Japanese, Русский, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
cinder10
management10
storage10
debug10
distributed-systems10
openstack10
backend10
volumes10
back-end-development10
python10
openstack-swift10
testing10
debugging8
documentation8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/swift
Feb 2012 - Sep 2021
OpenStack Storage (Swift). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:100 commits in 9 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Pete contributed to the OpenStack Swift project, focusing on various enhancements and bug fixes. Their work included adding features for Fedora-based installations and addressing documentation issues. Additionally, they made changes to the test suite and improved code formatting across the project, and also worked on allowing functional tests against Swift with Keystone. They demonstrated proficiency in modifying and maintaining the core codebase of a distributed storage system.
opendevswiftopenstackstoragemacos
openstack/python-swiftclient
Feb 2013 - May 2018
OpenStack Storage (Swift) Client. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Pete primarily focused on bug fixes and code improvements within the `python-swiftclient` repository. Their work involved addressing issues related to pseudo-directories, directory creation, and incorrect handling of authentication and socket timeouts. The user also refactored code for better readability and streamlined the `list` command. These changes involved modifications to the client and service modules.
swift-clientopendevswiftopenstackstorage
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