Sulochan Acharya
Cloud Architect at Rackspace, the #1 managed cloud company
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSulochan Acharya is a Cloud Architect and founder with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale OpenStack and Kubernetes infrastructures. Based in London, he combines deep Linux systems and API development expertise with a focus on automation to improve operational efficiency and reliability. At Rackspace he builds tools for running OpenStack at scale and contributes to core OpenStack projects like Nova and python-novaclient, improving CLI usability and live-migration robustness. He also founded PixelVirt and previously led AlertAgility, turning operational insights into commercial products for incident management and automated remediation. With an MSc in Economics, Finance and Management and a background in electrical engineering, he uniquely blends technical depth with business-minded product thinking.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
ISc, ISc at Kathmandu University (KU)BS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at University at BuffaloMSc, Economics Finance and Management, Distinction, MSc, Economics Finance and Management, Distinction at University of Bristol
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Github Skills (17)
laravel-nova10
xapi10
xserver10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
python10
command-line-interface10
openstack-nova10
openstack10
api10
command-line10
ova10
backend10
xen10
cli10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/python-novaclient
Aug 2012 - Jun 2013
OpenStack Compute (Nova) Client. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Sulochan contributed to the OpenStack Compute (Nova) Client, primarily focusing on enhancing the command-line interface (CLI) and fixing existing issues. Their work included adding features like deleting multiple servers and providing a reason for disabling services, and improving image management capabilities. The user also addressed bugs related to documentation strings and string formatting, demonstrating a commitment to code quality and user experience.
pythonnovaopendevopenstackcompute
openstack/nova
Aug 2012 - Aug 2015
OpenStack Compute (Nova). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Sulochan primarily focused on backend development, addressing bugs and implementing improvements within the OpenStack Compute (Nova) project. Their contributions involved enhancing the evacuate functionality, including adding checks for host existence and cleaning up exception handling. The user also added policy control to cells ext, and ensured the presence of PV driver information during live migration for XenServer. Furthermore, they addressed volume cleanup issues during live migration rollbacks.
novaopendevopenstackcompute
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