Goutham has been a contributor to OpenStack since the Liberty release (2015). He has been most active within the OpenStack Shared File Systems (manila), Block Storage (cinder) and UX (openstackcli, openstacksdk) project teams. He is currently the Chair of the OpenStack Technical Committee: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/. He's a Principal Software Engineer within the OpenStack Engineering team at Red Hat Inc. Prior to working on OpenStack, he has worked on several projects involving data protection across storage systems. Aside from his code contributions, Goutham spends a lot of his time building cross project synchronization and advocating for user experience and API stability. He was a Project Team Lead and the API working group liaison for the Shared File Systems project. As a firm believer in the OpenStack community and its ideals, Goutham devotes significant time to mentoring and onboarding new contributors.

Presentations

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CephFS and OpenStack Manila: File Sharing Without the Headaches (Mostly!)

Explore the evolving integration of CephFS with OpenStack Manila in this session, where we’ll delve into the unique features CephFS brings to cloud file systems. We’ll cover the trade-offs of CephFS Native and CephFS NFS, highlighting practical reasons why each might not fit all use cases. Wrapping up, we’ll look at future innovations, like the SMB driver and VirtIOFS, that promise to expand functionality and use cases for OpenStack file sharing. Join us for a deep dive into these powerful tools and their future in cloud architecture.

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From Zero to Code: A Hands-On Guide to Making Your First OpenStack Code Contribution

Attendees will understand how developers identify bugs/features to work on, create contributor accounts, develop the code change, test it against an OpenStack deployment and submit it for community code review. As seasoned core maintainers of OpenStack, we can share strategies we have learned to engage with the community and get these code changes merged. We hope this session will serve as a quickstart to in-person audiences who get to follow along hands-on.

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