Tentacle Award
The Tentacle Award Committee recognizes the outstanding contributions of some former and present members of the Ceph Community each year. If you would like to nominate someone within the community, please send your suggestion to ambassadors@lists.cephfoundation.org.
2026
Tentacle Award
- Mark Nelson — Performance Lead
- Yuri Weinstein — QA & Testing Lead
Octopus Award
- Yehuda Sadeh-Weinraub — The Original PTLs
- Sam Just — The Original PTLs
- Greg Farnum — The Original PTLs
- Josh Durgin — The Original PTLs
2025
Neha Ojha
RADOS Technical Lead
Ken Dryer
Release Engineering
Ernesto Puerta
Dashboard Lead
Orit Wasserman
RGW / Multisite
2025 – During Cephalocon
Tentacle Award
- Casey Bodley — RGW Technical Lead
- James Page — Ubuntu Packaging
The InkTank Team
- Ian Colle — The InkTank Team
- Neil Levine — The InkTank Team
- Wolfgang Schulze — The InkTank Team
- Ross Turk — The InkTank Team
2022
Sage Weil
Founder / Architect
Sebastian Wagner
Ceph Orchestrator
2021
Patrick Donnelly
CephFS
2021
Kefu Chai
Crimson / BlueStore
2021
Lenz Grimmer
Dashboard Technical Lead
2020
Jason Dillaman
RBD Technical Lead
2021