Sheel Rana is a DevOps Architect with 10 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructures, currently based in Tokyo and leading platform efforts at Rakuten. He specializes in containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenShift, Robin.io) and the CNCF/Cloud-native tooling stack including Helm, Prometheus, Istio, and Ansible, combined with hands-on OpenStack (Tacker) and NFV-MANO ETSI standardization experience. Comfortable in both Python and Go, he brings a pragmatic engineering approach that spans automation, service mesh, telemetry and programmable APIs. He has contributed backend fixes to the prominent OpenStack Cinder project, improving database interactions and API filtering, underscoring a commitment to reliable storage and platform integrations. With a history of advisory and delivery roles across NEC, Societe Generale and others, he pairs standards-level insight with production-grade execution.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Applications - MCA, Master of Computer Applications - MCA at Maharshi Dayanand University
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Hindu College, Sonepat.
OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:17 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Sheel primarily contributed to the OpenStack Cinder project by modifying and improving the backend database interactions. Their work involved updating the database schema, replacing update() with soft_delete(), and adding release notes to prevent modification during update operations. Additionally, they addressed bugs and implemented changes related to volume type access and handling of boolean filters within the API. The user's changes directly impact how Cinder interacts with its database and provides filtering capabilities.
Contributions:127 commits, 212 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
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