Yuri Weinstein
Test Engineer at IBM
San Francisco, California, United States
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Yuri Weinstein is a seasoned Test Engineer with over 20 years in QA and roughly 12 years of recent hands-on experience driving test automation and release validation for distributed systems, currently focusing on Ceph at IBM/Red Hat. He blends deep automation expertise (Selenium/Java/TestNG, QTP) with infrastructure skills across Windows, UNIX, AWS and CI-driven test scheduling, having improved Ceph's nightly test matrix and branch coverage. A proven leader and builder of QA teams and frameworks, he has founded and led automation groups, mentored engineers, and introduced tooling and processes that raised release quality and transparency. He also brings a long-standing hobbyist’s mastery of networking and firewall tech (pfSense, OpenVPN, DNSSEC, pfBlockerNG, Snort), which informs his troubleshooting and security-minded testing. Based in San Francisco, Yuri pairs pragmatic engineering with a history of influential volunteer beta testing at Microsoft, demonstrating both longevity and curiosity in evolving platforms.
12 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, MS, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering at Kharkov Institute of Technology
Russian
Github Skills (4)
bash10
script10
devops10
testing10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ceph/ceph
Mar 2014 - Jan 2023
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:401 reviews, 6515 commits, 7536 PRs in 9 years
Contributions summary:Yuri primarily focused on modifying and improving the test infrastructure for the Ceph project. Their contributions involved modifying the `schedule_subset.sh` script to control which tests are run daily, ensuring tests are run for different branches such as master, hammer, octopus, and pacific. The user also adjusted test priorities and added new branches to the testing mix. These modifications were done to improve the test results and add new branch integration to existing infrastructure.
fusefile-storagecephstorageopenebs
yuriw/ceph
Dec 2016 - Feb 2025
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Contributions:1 PR, 700 pushes, 561 branches in 8 years 3 months
zerofile-storagentfscephglusterfs
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