Travis Nielsen
Senior Technical Staff Member at Red Hat
Boise, Idaho, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTravis Nielsen is a Senior Technical Staff Member and storage-focused engineering leader with over 16 years of experience building reliable, scalable systems and 11 years of active professional experience in enterprise software. He currently architects OpenShift Data Foundation at IBM and is a long-time maintainer of Rook, the widely used storage orchestration project for Kubernetes, where his work has improved Ceph OSD robustness, failure handling, and Helm chart reliability. Comfortable both as a hands-on backend/DevOps engineer and a strategic architect, he repeatedly breaks through blocking technical issues to deliver production-ready solutions. His background spans startups to Microsoft and Red Hat, blending deep systems, cloud, and operations expertise with a customer-focused, testable engineering discipline. Based in Boise, he brings a pragmatic emphasis on real-world reliability and a track record of influencing core cluster health and observability through open-source contributions.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Brigham Young University
Spanish
Github Skills (22)
kubernetes10
docker10
storage10
dockers10
cicd10
data-storage10
file-storage10
automation10
roc10
go10
prometheus10
kubernetes-pods10
cluster-manager10
ceph10
cluster-api10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
rook/rook
Aug 2016 - Jan 2023
Storage Orchestration for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:179 releases, 8561 reviews, 4530 commits in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Travis's contributions primarily involve enhancements and fixes related to the Ceph storage orchestration for Kubernetes. They focused on improving the robustness and stability of the OSD daemon management within the cluster, including ensuring the correct node assignment, handling failure scenarios, and updating device classes. Additionally, they worked on refactoring the code to reduce code duplication and to allow the option of disabling the Ceph CSI driver, and updated the Helm charts. Their contributions are impacting areas of core cluster health and management
etcddata-protectionorchestrationdockerceph
red-hat-storage/ocs-operator
Jul 2020 - May 2022
Operator for RHOCS
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:320 reviews, 11 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Travis primarily contributed to the infrastructure and operational aspects of the RHOCS operator. Their commits involved updating dependencies related to the Rook operator, including changes to images and versions, and integrating with the Rook API. A significant part of their work focused on the configuration and deployment of monitoring tools, specifically creating Prometheus rules, and modifying the creation of these rules within the CephCluster resource. Furthermore, they updated the vendoring to maintain compatibility across different versions of Go.
kubernetes-operatorkubernetesoperator
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