Tzur Eliya is a pragmatic software engineer with 9 years of experience building cloud and storage integrations, currently working at Meta after leading development teams at Flipkart Israel. He combines strong backend skills in Python and C# with hands-on DevOps and Linux expertise, and has deep practical experience in OpenStack, Kubernetes and cross-platform storage tooling from his time at IBM-XIV. Tzur has contributed important fixes and features to the high-profile OpenStack Cinder project—improving IBM storage driver replication, QoS handling and failover—which underscores his strength in reliable distributed storage systems. Known for shipping automation like official Ansible modules and solving tricky replication/cloning edge cases, he blends systems-level thinking with pragmatic team leadership. Based in Tel Aviv with a CS degree from Tel Aviv University, he favors durable, observable solutions that scale in production.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Tel Aviv University
OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:11 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Tzur primarily focused on enhancing the IBM storage driver for the OpenStack Cinder project. Their contributions involved fixing bugs related to volume replication, particularly concerning the handling of replicated volumes on the XIV backend. The user also implemented new features, such as support for group replication and independent QoS types, improving the functionality and flexibility of the IBM storage integration. These changes addressed issues with cloning, failover, and deletion of replicated volumes, improving overall stability.
Contributions:12 commits, 3 pushes, 2 tags in 1 year 1 month
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