Drew Thorstensen
IBM Cloud - Compute & AI Infrastructure - Distinguished Engineer
Morrisville, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDrew Thorstensen is an IBM Distinguished Engineer with two decades of experience designing fit-for-purpose IaaS and AI infrastructure for global cloud campuses. As Chief Engineer for IBM Cloud’s VPC Compute & AI Instances he has driven delivery of multi-vendor AI-optimized systems, HPC and SAP-targeted platforms, and the Vela architecture while keeping fleet management, automation, and platform integration central to operations. He combines hardware-focused product introductions—next-generation CPU servers and SDI/I/O innovations—with software-centric automation for configuration baselines and system orchestration. An active contributor to OpenStack Nova, Drew has improved live migration, network authentication, and error handling in foundational cloud compute code. He holds an M.S. in Computer Software Engineering and a B.S. in Computer Science and blends deep systems engineering with pragmatic delivery across Power and x86 environments.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Michigan Technological UniversityUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
Github Skills (17)
python10
apidoc10
n10
openstack10
api10
openstack-neutron10
testing9
unit-testing9
error-handling9
integration-testing9
test-unit9
unit-test9
test-integration9
service-provider8
cloud-infrastructure8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/nova
Sep 2013 - Dec 2016
OpenStack Compute (Nova). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Drew contributed to the OpenStack Nova project by addressing issues related to live migrations and network authentication within the context of Neutron. They removed fixed IP validation for pre-live migrations and updated test cases. Additionally, the user implemented changes to pass through credentials to the Neutron client for re-authentication, improving token handling. Furthermore, the user addressed error handling for detach operations and improved messaging for fixed IP exhaustion.
openstack
IBM/nvme-disk-qualifier
May 2022 - Oct 2022
A simple python tool to perform qualification tests against an Enterprise NVMe drive.
Contributions:17 reviews, 8 commits, 12 PRs in 4 months
nvmepython
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