With a heavy heart, I am sorry to announce that after a long struggle with an illness, Ilya Etingof (etingof on IRC) passed away on Wednesday, 10th August, 2022.
He is survived by his mother and two daughters.
Born in Russia, Ilya had moved to Czechia and in 2015 joined Red Hat. In 2017, Ilya started contributing to the Ironic project. He was the lead contributor to the Sushy project, Sushy Redfish emulator, an important contributor to Ironic and worked tirelessly to make hardware management reliable and consistent. His important contributions included boot management, out-of-band hardware inspection and virtual media boot.
Outside of the OpenStack community, he has maintained Python packages with a particular focus on SNMP. For example: pysnmp, pysmi, pyasn1, softboxen and many others.
Ilya was dedicated to helping younger and under-represented people. He used to run a virtualisation technologies course at the Masaryk University in Brno where he spoke about OpenStack and Kubernetes.
He was also an active participant in the Outreachy program where he mentored those who contributed to Open Source projects.
Goodbye Ilya from the Ironic community, may you rest in peace.