Simon Dodsley
Technical Strategy Director, Open Source
Boca Raton, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolSimon Dodsley is a technical strategy director specializing in open source, cloud-native orchestration, and storage integration with over 30 years of engineering experience and a decade focused on modern cloud stacks. Currently leading Open Source strategy at Everpure after directing New Stack Technologies at Pure Storage, he blends hands-on development with product strategy across OpenStack, Kubernetes, Ansible, Salt and related automation toolsets. He is a long-time contributor to major projects such as OpenStack Cinder, Salt and Ansible, notably enhancing Pure Storage drivers and automation modules that bridge enterprise storage with cloud orchestration. Simon has deep expertise in digital sovereignty and cloud repatriation methodologies, pairing practical storage architecture knowledge from enterprise banking and storage vendors with current cloud-native patterns. Based in Boca Raton, he combines systems-level storage and migration background with developer-focused integration work, often surfacing subtle usability and documentation improvements in open source projects. His uncommon mix of legacy high-performance storage experience and modern container/orchestration fluency makes him effective at translating complex infrastructure needs into deployable open source solutions.
10 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Corrosion Engineering, MSc, Corrosion Engineering at The University of ManchesterBSc, Applied Science (Physics and Metallurgy), BSc, Applied Science (Physics and Metallurgy) at Sheffield Hallam University
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Github Skills (24)
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storage10
automation10
openstack10
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ansible10
management10
infrastructure-as-code10
ansible-galaxy10
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/cinder
Jul 2015 - Aug 2022
OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:57 commits in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the Pure Storage driver within the OpenStack Cinder project. Their work focused on enhancing the driver's functionality and addressing bugs. Contributions include fixing error messages, updating API versions, incrementing driver versions, and adding support for features such as multi-attach and volume quality of service. The user also worked on resolving issues related to volume name length limitations and ensuring consistent behavior in clustered environments.
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ansible/ansible
Jun 2017 - Mar 2020
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:119 commits, 115 PRs, 94 comments in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Simon's commits center on the creation of a Pure Storage Ansible module specifically for managing Pure Storage FlashArray hosts. The contributions include implementing the module's core functionality, fixing import issues and following best practices during development. The work involved writing Python code, dealing with various Ansible parameters, and integrating with the Pure Storage API. Documentation and formatting changes were also addressed.
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