Tobias Urdin
Product Director Cloud Services at OpenStack
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolTobias Urdin is a Product Director for Cloud Services with a decade of hands-on experience building and operating Linux-first infrastructure and networked systems from kernel to cloud. He progressed from datacenter Linux/sysadmin roles to leading cloud architecture and product at Binero, while also serving as a core reviewer and PTL within the OpenStack community. His open-source contributions span OpenStack (Nova, Horizon, Cinder, Packstack) and Ceph, with practical work on live migration, storage integrations and Keystone/ token handling—evidence of deep expertise in distributed storage and cloud deployment tooling. A networking enthusiast comfortable with enterprise gear and BGP/VLAN operations, he pairs relentless curiosity and home-lab experimentation with product leadership to deliver reliable, extensible services.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High school graduation, System, Networking, Windows Server, Cisco, CCNA, LAN/WAN, High school graduation, System, Networking, Windows Server, Cisco, CCNA, LAN/WAN at NTI Gymnasium, Stockholm
Swedish, English
Github Skills (44)
apim10
api-rest10
libvirt10
puppeteer10
c-language10
volumes10
python10
back-end-development10
puppet10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
authentication10
user-authentication10
distributed-systems10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/nova
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
OpenStack Compute (Nova). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily contributed to the OpenStack Nova project by addressing bugs and implementing enhancements related to storage and live migration functionality. They fixed a bug by preventing the leakage of a ceph command. The user also added a workaround for the announce-self QEMU monitor command post live-migration and updated the description for this feature. Additionally, they worked on cleaning up resize instance directories before initiating a resize operation.
novaopendevopenstackcompute
openstack/cinder
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tobias contributed to the OpenStack Cinder project by implementing and enhancing features related to the Swift backup driver. Their work involved adding configuration options for storage policies when creating Swift containers, improving error handling related to Swift connections, and incorporating support for service user tokens for authentication. They also addressed code quality issues by changing logging levels for specific messages, and they fixed a bug related to backup status updates.
cinderblockchainopendevblock-storageopenstack
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