Shmuel Melamud
Senior Software Development Engineer at Red Hat
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolShmuel Melamud is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 11 years of professional experience and a Master’s in Applied Mathematics, specializing in high-quality backend systems in Java, Python and C/C++. Based in Israel and long-tenured at Red Hat, he focuses on virtualization and VM lifecycle tooling, contributing substantive backend features and tests to prominent open-source projects like ManageIQ and oVirt/vdsm. His work spans fixing device detection and host statistics, adding virt-sysprep and in-place sparsification support, and implementing UI-controller integrations for VM transformation flows—demonstrating both low-level systems expertise and product-minded engineering. Known for clean refactors and thorough testing, he brings algorithmic rigor to production-grade distributed systems and a track record of improving legacy behaviors after upgrades. An atypical strength is his ability to navigate both kernel-adjacent VM storage operations and higher-level orchestration controller logic, bridging gaps between infrastructure and management layers.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Applied Mathematics, Master of Science, Applied Mathematics at Odessa National 'I.I. Mecnikov' UniversityRichelieu Lyceum
English, Russian, Hebrew, Ukrainian
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Github Skills (18)
libvirt10
ruby-rails10
python10
rails10
vmware10
ruby10
ovirt10
manage10
vms10
virtualization10
testing9
storage9
data-storage9
file-storage9
rest-api8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
oVirt/vdsm
Mar 2015 - Nov 2022
The Virtual Desktop Server Manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 3 PRs in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Shmuel Melamud primarily contributed to the `vdsm` project, focusing on improvements and bug fixes within the virtual machine management system. His work involved configuring sampling intervals for host statistics, correcting device detection, enhancing smartcard device detection, and addressing legacy configurations after upgrades. Furthermore, he implemented support for in-place sparsification of volume images, added virt-sysprep support, and addressed an issue in guest agent interactions.
vdivmsvirtual-desktopwindowselectron
ManageIQ/manageiq-ui-classic
Oct 2017 - Jul 2018
Classic UI of ManageIQ
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 6 PRs, 43 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Shmuel contributed to the `manageiq/manageiq-ui-classic` repository by implementing and modifying back-end controller logic and button functionalities, specifically focusing on VM transformation features related to Red Hat Virtualization (RHV). Their work involved refactoring existing code, adding new buttons to the UI toolbar, and modifying existing controller methods to support a new VM transformation dialog. These changes also included adding tests to ensure the correct behavior of the VM transformation methods. Furthermore, the user addressed code quality issues by fixing comments.
reactmanageiq
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