Tentacle Award
The team recognizes the outstanding contributions of some former and present members of the Ceph Community with the Tentacle Award.
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