Rocky Luo is a results-driven General Manager and Programme/Project leader with 15 years’ Telecoms and IT experience across the UK, Europe and China, combining hands-on engineering roots (Computer Science degree) with an MBA from Henley. He has led multi-million pound/euro product and network deliveries—from smartphone concept-to-global launch to carrier-grade Telco and enterprise network rollouts—often managing 50+ onshore/offshore staff. Rocky has run key account strategies for major vendors and operators (Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Virgin Media, EE, Vodafone, TUI, Nationwide) and thrives in start-up-style market entries and GTM execution. Technically comfortable in cloud, BI/ERP/Salesforce and distributed systems, he also contributes code to notable open-source projects like Ceph, improving OSD monitoring and storage performance. Pragmatic and willing to leave his comfort zone to get the job done, he blends governance discipline (PRINCE2, ITIL) with product-led creativity from robotics to consumer devices. Based in Shenzhen, he uniquely bridges western operator ecosystems and fast-moving Chinese hardware/software development cycles.
7 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Shenzhen University
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Operations Management, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Operations Management at Henley Business School
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:46 reviews, 33 commits, 100 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Rocky's contributions primarily involve modifying the Ceph distributed storage platform's source code, particularly within the OSDMonitor and related modules. The user implemented improvements related to OSD beacon reporting, including adding a safety mechanism to prevent unnecessary OSD down-marking, and modifying files related to the OSD beacon mechanism. The user also addressed issues related to incorrect LRU object eviction in RGW file handling and made performance improvements to the Crimson messenger tool. Furthermore, the user removed and corrected various configurations.
Ansible configurations for Ceph.com infrastructure
Contributions:5 PRs, 4 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 6 months
ansibleinfrastructurecephconfigurations
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