Tal Nisan
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Red Hat
Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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SeniorTal Nisan is a seasoned software engineering leader with 14 years of experience driving virtualization and storage engineering at Red Hat, now managing Compute-Cluster and Compute-Node teams for OpenShift Virtualization. He combines deep hands-on expertise—from early frontend architecture work to implementing storage and image-migration fixes in the widely used oVirt/vdsm project—with steady people leadership through roles from team lead to senior manager. Based in the Tel-Aviv District, Tal is skilled at turning complex virtualization storage challenges into production-grade features and performance improvements. He has a track record of shipping enterprise-ready systems and mentoring engineering teams through multiple product evolutions, including contributions to open-source virtualization infrastructure. Less obvious: he progressed internally across diverse technical and managerial roles at one company, showing a rare blend of institutional knowledge and adaptability.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (11)
data-storage10
file-storage10
storage10
python10
vms10
virtualization10
json-rpc9
linux8
jpanel6
arraylist6
java6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
oVirt/vdsm
Mar 2014 - Mar 2019
The Virtual Desktop Server Manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits in 5 years
Contributions summary:Tal primarily contributed to the `vdsm` repository, which manages virtual desktop servers, by implementing and fixing storage-related functionalities. Their work involved modifying code related to file and block domain storage, specifically addressing issues around image migration, sparse image handling, and storage domain creation. The user's contributions also included improvements to JSON RPC and alignment scan processes, improving the overall performance and compatibility of the system.
server-managervirtual-desktopovirt
tnisan/ovirt-ansible-hosted-engine-setup
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:8 pushes in 9 days
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