Richard Oliveri
Retired at The Beach
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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RockstarRichard Oliveri is a retired Principal Software Engineer with 13 years in virtualization R&D at Red Hat and a long career stretching back to Bell Labs, Unix System Laboratories, Novell, HP and ManageIQ. He specializes in backend systems for virtualization and storage, notably contributing to the open-source ManageIQ platform by expanding storage type support, improving SmartState Analysis, and fixing complex NFS and VM-scanning issues. Known for deep protocol- and provider-level changes, he combines systems-level rigor with practical bug-fixing that improves large-scale management platforms. Based in New Jersey, he has a strong track record of shipping robust solutions across both enterprise and open-source projects. Colleagues would point to his ability to untangle infrastructure edge cases and implement durable fixes that surface as smoother operator workflows.
13 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (21)
ruby-rails10
storage10
rails10
ruby10
data-storage10
file-storage10
vmware9
openstack9
activerecord9
nfs8
bubble-sort6
pointer6
sorting6
cloud-computing6
ansible-galaxy5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ManageIQ/manageiq
Jun 2014 - Apr 2020
ManageIQ Open-Source Management Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:341 commits, 159 PRs, 123 pushes in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Richard contributed to the ManageIQ platform by enhancing the storage management capabilities. They extended the supported storage types and added checks for archived and orphaned VMs within the UI. Key contributions involved modifying core models and provider-specific code to support SmartState Analysis and correct NFS mount handling, ultimately improving the platform's ability to handle storage operations and VM scanning. Further improvements were made in fixing proxy selection for SSA on RHEV and addressing bugs in the process.
gcporigamiopenshiftcephredfish
roliveri/manageiq
Jan 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:55 pushes, 57 branches, 2 comments in 1 year 8 months
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