Walter Boring
Software Engineer at SAP
Appomattox, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWalter Boring is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building storage and cloud infrastructure, currently running the storage platform for SAP's Cloud. He is a long-time OpenStack contributor and storage expert, having authored critical pieces like the HP 3PAR iSCSI driver, os-brick initiator framework, and Fibre Channel tooling used by Nova and Cinder. His background spans enterprise to startup work across HPE, SUSE, and SAP, with deep hands-on skills in distributed storage, Ceph integration, and Kubernetes deployment of OpenStack. Based in Appomattox, VA, he combines systems-level engineering with pragmatic delivery—an engineer who ensures concurrent storage operations stay reliable at scale. An amateur radio callsign (WB4BOR) hints at a curiosity for systems and communications beyond his day job.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at California State University-ChicoUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (4)
python10
openstack-cinder10
iscsi9
thread-safety9
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/cinder
Dec 2012 - Feb 2022
OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:180 commits in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Walter contributed significantly to the OpenStack Cinder project, focusing on the implementation of a 3PAR storage array driver. Their work involved integrating the lockutils, fileutils, and gettextutils libraries to ensure thread safety within the driver's entry points. This integration was crucial for handling concurrent volume creation requests by multiple users accessing the 3PAR drive array, preventing potential conflicts and data integrity issues. They also introduced a new iSCSI driver.
block-storageopenstack
hpe-storage/python-3parclient
Sep 2012 - Aug 2019
This is a python client that talks to the HPE Alletra MP, HPE Alletra 9000 and HPE Primera and HPE 3PAR storage array via REST.
Contributions:1 review, 175 commits, 3 PRs in 7 years
pythonrest
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