Goutham Pacha Ravi

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.