Vladik Romanovsky
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolVladik Romanovsky is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of deep expertise in virtualization, KVM/libvirt, and cloud-native VM management, currently serving as a technical lead and maintainer of the KubeVirt project at Red Hat. He has a long history contributing to OpenStack Nova—improving compute, block device handling, and Libvirt driver robustness—which reflects his knack for production-grade backend engineering. Vladik’s career spans hands-on roles from enterprise virtualization at Morgan Stanley to global support leadership and product work at Red Hat, giving him rare end-to-end insight from troubleshooting to feature design. Based in Pincourt, Quebec, he pairs a physics BSc with pragmatic engineering, and quietly excels at bridging support, maintenance, and open-source development to deliver reliable, high-performance virtualization features.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
bsc, Physics, bsc, Physics at Bar-Ilan University
English, Hebrew, Russian, French
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Github Skills (7)
libvirt10
openstack10
python10
back-end-development10
virtualization10
cloud-infrastructure9
system-design8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/nova
Sep 2013 - Feb 2017
OpenStack Compute (Nova). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:100 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Vladik primarily focused on back-end development, making significant changes to improve the nova compute service. Their contributions involved merging and refactoring existing `mkfs` commands to use the `nova.utils.mkfs` method, adding functionality to handle block devices. The user also implemented enhancements related to ephemeral disk creation and resolved issues related to permission and configuration. Moreover, the user was involved in improvements and enhancements to Libvirt driver to handle errors and state changes.
novaopendevopenstackcompute
vladikr/user-guide
Mar 2018 - Feb 2025
This user guide will walk you through installation and various features.
Contributions:22 pushes, 15 branches in 7 years
pythonwalkuser-guideinstallationpython3
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