Yuriy Umanets
Senior Software Engineer at SOFT EDGE Sp.z o.o.
Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolYuriy Umanets is a senior software engineer based in Switzerland with over two decades of experience building high-performance storage and filesystem technologies, currently contributing at NVIDIA. He has driven architecture and implementation of petascale filesystems (MERO/MOTR) and clustered filesystems like Lustre, often leading distributed teams and contributing patents for storage innovations. As co-founder of an InsurTech startup he applied CNNs to real-world mobile hail damage assessment, showing a mix of deep systems expertise and product-driven entrepreneurship. An active open-source contributor, he has fixed complex build and integration issues in the widely used SPDK project to improve DPDK compatibility and storage performance. Notably comfortable in both kernel-space and user-space code, Yuriy blends low-level systems mastery with applied machine-learning product work, a combination that surfaces in both enterprise and startup settings.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Unfinished, Radio Engineering, Unfinished, Radio Engineering at Kiev High Engineering Military School of Air DefenseIgor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (7)
c1710
crypto10
dpdk10
gnu-make10
build-system10
c1110
networking9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
spdk/spdk
Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
Storage Performance Development Kit
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:31 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Yuriy contributed significantly to the SPDK (Storage Performance Development Kit) project by addressing build and configuration issues related to DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit). Their commits focused on integrating and adapting SPDK to work with various DPDK components, including the MLX5 network drivers, IPSec_MB, and crypto functionalities, resolving linking problems, and ensuring compatibility. The user enhanced the build system to properly detect and link against the necessary DPDK libraries and dependencies, alongside fixing memory management issues and integrating new API calls from DPDK, showcasing their involvement in improving the system's storage performance and integration with DPDK.
development-kitvagrantperformancestoragevirtualbox
Seagate/cortx-motr
Apr 2021 - Aug 2021
CORTX Motr is a distributed object and key-value storage system targeting mass capacity storage configurations. It's the core component of CORTX storage system.
Contributions:76 reviews, 4 PRs, 22 pushes in 4 months
masscore-componentcapacitystorage-configurationsstorage
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