Gorka Eguileor
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolGorka Eguileor is a results-driven software engineer with over 16 years of experience and deep expertise in storage, embedded systems, and networking protocols. He has been a core contributor to OpenStack storage projects (Cinder, Nova, OS-brick) at Red Hat, driving iSCSI refactors, RBD replication, and Active‑Active volume support that improved robustness and performance in production clouds. Comfortable across low-level C and x86 assembly to high-level Python services, he pairs practical hardware/serial interface knowledge with cloud-scale backend engineering. An active open-source maintainer and spec contributor, he has also influenced the Container Storage Interface and added NVMe-oF and LUKSv2-related fixes and tests to critical repos. Colleagues know him for adaptability, initiative, and the ability to liaise across communities to ship cross-project features and fixes. Based in Madrid, he combines a long history in embedded product development with cloud storage leadership, making him adept at solving systems problems that span firmware to infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor + Master in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence Specialization, Bachelor + Master in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence Specialization at Universidad EuropeaChiromasseur, Chiromassage, Chiromasseur, Chiromassage at Instituto Europeo de QuiromasajeTypewriting, Typewriting at Meca-rapidMongo NoSQL database, Mongo NoSQL database at Mongodb UniversityComputerized Accounting, Computerized Accounting at CEF Centro de Estudios FinancierosC.O.U., Hard Sciences, C.O.U., Hard Sciences at Colegio Santa María del Pilar
English, Spanish
Github Skills (31)
laravel-nova10
spec10
container10
volumes10
back-end-development10
python10
testing10
cinder10
storage10
openstack-nova10
pest10
go10
openstack10
temper10
service-design10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/cinder
Feb 2015 - Aug 2022
OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:485 commits in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Gorka contributed to the Cinder project by improving and fixing issues related to volume management, replication, and quota operations. They addressed data integrity issues in volume attachment and data migration. The user also enhanced the quality of several tests, fixing unit test failures and improved tests execution by applying different mechanisms. The user also worked on adding functionality by supporting for cluster environments.
block-storageopenstack
container-storage-interface/spec
May 2018 - Jan 2019
Container Storage Interface (CSI) Specification.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 38 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Gorka primarily contributed to the specification documents of the Container Storage Interface (CSI). They modified the specification to include unit definitions for capacity responses, clarified the behavior of volume cloning when using a different size, and corrected comments related to the snapshot feature. The user's contributions focused on improving the clarity and completeness of the CSI specification, specifically related to volume creation and snapshots. They also removed unnecessary trailing spaces from the specification file.
container-storage-interfacecontainersstoragecsi
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