Team
Ceph’s Steering Committee
The leaders, innovators and talented intellects behind Ceph.
The Ceph Steering Committee is comprised of the key technical players who manage the community and oversee the advancement of Ceph.
Find out more about each key player and their area of expertise, or see members who have received the tentacle award!
Component Leads
| Adam King | Cephadm (Orchestration) |
| Venky Shankar | CephFS |
| Matan Breizman | Crimson |
| Afreen Misbah | Dashboard |
| Radoslaw Zarzynski | RADOS |
| Ilya Dryomov | RBD |
| Adam Emerson | RGW |
| Eric Ivancich | RGW |
| Yingxin Cheng | Seastore |
| Aviv Caro | NVMe-oF |
Other members
| Guillaume Abrioux | Container Build / ceph-volume |
| Matt Benjamin | RGW |
| Casey Bodley | RGW |
| Anthony D’Atri | Documentation |
| Zac Dover | Documentation |
| Patrick Donnelly | CephFS |
| Josh Durgin | RADOS |
| Gregory Farnum | CephFS / RADOS |
| Igor Fedotov | BlueStore |
| Laura Flores | RADOS |
| Yaarit Hatuka | Telemetry |
| Sam Just | RADOS |
| João Eduardo Luis | Development |
| Dan Mick | build/test/lab |
| Mark Nelson | Performance / CBT |
| Joseph Mundackal | User |
| Myoungwon Oh | SeaStore |
| Neha Ojha | RADOS |
| David Orman | User |
| Ernesto Puerta | User |
| Yehuda Sadeh | RGW |
| Gaurav Sitlani | Ambassadors |
| Dan van der Ster | User |
| Vikhyat Umrao | RADOS / Performance at Scale / User Workloads |
| Haomai Wang | Async Messenger |
| Yuri Weinstein | Release Management / Testing |
| Xie Xingguo | RADOS |
Core Team
Patrick Donnelly
IRC: pdonnellPatrick Donnelly is a software engineer at Red Hat, Inc. currently working on the Ceph distributed file system. In 2016 he completed his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Notre Dame with a dissertation on the topic of file transfer management in active storage cluster file systems.
Ilya Dryomov
IRC: disIlya has been working on Ceph since 2013, originally focusing on the Linux kernel RBD driver. Currently he serves as the technical lead for RBD and the maintainer of the Linux kernel client and also contributes to RADOS primarily in messenger and cephx areas. Previously he was involved with Btrfs and HAMMER file systems.
Neha Ojha
IRC: nehaNeha is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. She is the project technical lead for the core team focusing on RADOS. Neha holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Ernesto Puerta
IRC: epuertatErnesto was the Ceph Dashboard component lead from 2020 to 2022. He previously worked at Telefonica R&D, Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs, and Nokia, where he first came to know about Ceph, for a Cloud Video Storage project back in 2015. After that stimulating experience, he joined Red Hat in 2018 and has since contributed to the Ceph Dashboard project, applying his expertise as a Ceph user. Ernesto holds a master’s degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and currently lives in that very city, famous for its fried calamari sandwich.
Yehuda Sadeh
IRC: yehudasaYehuda has been involved in Ceph since 2008, and has been working on various related projects and subsystems. He is the original developer of the RADOS Gateway (RGW) which he currently co-leads as part of his work at Red Hat. He also worked on multiple other Ceph projects, such as the Linux kernel Ceph filesystem module, and RBD. Notable other Ceph modules that he initiated along with Sage Weil are the Linux kernel RBD module, the RADOS object classes, and the cephx authentication. Before joining Ceph, Yehuda worked in various start up companies, where he developed various storage and networking solutions. He holds a Bachelor degree in Communication Systems Engineering from Ben Gurion University, and a Master degree in Computer Engineering from Tel Aviv University.
Maintainers
Matt Benjamin
IRC: mattbenjaminMatt Benjamin has been working professionally with Linux and open source software since 1994. He is a contributor to a variety of open source software packages and tools. He co-founded The Linux Box corporation in Ann Arbor, MI, has held a developer position with Comshare, Inc, and has also been a consultant with Integrated Micro Systems. Matt holds a master’s degree from the University of Michigan, and a bachelor’s degree (Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of Missouri.
Anthony D'Atri
Documentation LeadWith a career in systems administration spanning everything from laptops to vector supercomputers, Anthony D'Atri has built a reputation for his meticulous, holistic approach to large-scale infrastructure, observability, and fleet management. He is widely recognized for his extensive expertise with Ceph, having architected and operated Ceph systems at enterprise scale for over a decade. He is the primary author of Learning Ceph, Second Edition, a comprehensive guide on managing and scaling open-source storage solutions, and is a Ceph Ambassador. Prior to his current role, Anthony held senior technical positions at IBM as a Principal Open-Source Software-Defined Storage Engineer and at Index Exchange as a Principal Software Engineer. He holds a degree from Carnegie Mellon University.
Mark Nelson
IRC: nhmMark joined the Ceph team in January 2012 and has 12 years of experience in distributed systems, HPC, and bioinformatics. Mark works on Ceph performance analysis and is the primary author of the Ceph Benchmarking Toolkit. He runs the weekly Ceph performance meeting and is currently focused on research and development of Ceph’s next-generation object store.
Anthony Middleton
IRC: anthonymicmiddAnthony Middleton is the Community Manager of the Ceph Foundation, bringing over seven years of experience growing global tech communities. Based in Chicago, he has led community programs for organizations such as Confluent and Hedera, where he supported thousands of members through data-driven strategies, inclusive programming, and deep engagement. He’s excited to help lead the Ceph community into its next chapter of growth.