Tom Barron
Independent Software Developer at Freelance
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolTom Barron is an independent software developer with 11 years focused on OpenStack storage and a multi-decade career in networking and systems software. He led and contributed to Manila (File Systems as a Service) at Red Hat, built OpenStack storage features at NetApp, and now maintains LOKI — a Linux/OpenStack/Kubernetes infrastructure effort for OpenInfra. Tom blends deep systems and embedded experience from roles at Cisco and university research labs with practical deployment expertise for cloud-native RWX storage on OpenShift. He is comfortable from kernel modules and drivers to distributed control planes and large-scale network design, and he often operates at the intersection of upstream open source and downstream product integration. Based in Chapel Hill, NC, his background in philosophy hints at an analytical, design-driven approach to difficult engineering trade-offs.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
ABD, Philosophy, ABD, Philosophy at The University of Texas at AustinBA, cum laude, philosophy & religion, BA, cum laude, philosophy & religion at Williams College
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Github Skills (60)
kubernetes10
filesystem10
continuous-integration10
storage10
cicd10
openstack10
openshift10
cephfs10
cloud-storage10
python-bindings10
high-performance10
replication10
devops10
opendev10
csi-driver10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tombarron/pocketmanilakube
Jan 2020 - Jul 2020
Deploy K8s cluster (via kind) locally with Manila-CSI plugin along with Manila
Contributions:16 commits, 3 PRs, 20 pushes in 6 months
k8s
tombarron/manila-kube
Apr 2019 - Jan 2020
k8s environment on OpenStack for developing manila storage provider
Contributions:11 PRs, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
k8sopenstack
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