Over a two-month period, contributed to the rackerlabs/understack repository by developing and enhancing a dynamic NetApp Cinder driver focused on metadata-driven provisioning and multi-SVM support. Leveraging Python and YAML, implemented runtime extraction of configuration from volume type metadata, enabling dynamic backend provisioning via REST APIs with support for iSCSI and NVMe protocols. Introduced features such as dynamic SVM discovery, cross-SVM pool tracking, and SVM-aware scheduling, which improved provisioning reliability and scalability. The work emphasized backend development, cloud infrastructure, and storage management, streamlining Cinder’s integration with NetApp storage and reducing manual configuration while supporting evolving cluster environments.