Nov 2016 – Jul 2025 · 8 yrs 8 mos · Mountain View, California, United States · On-site

Feb 2012 – Aug 2016 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Palo Alto

• At Cloudera, I worked on the Hadoop Distributed Filesystem (HDFS), Apache Kudu, Apache Spark, and Apache Sentry projects.

Oct 2011 – Feb 2012 · 4 mos · 2701 San Tomas Expressway, Santa Clara, CA

Sep 2010 – Sep 2011 · 1 yr

• I work on the Ceph open source distributed filesystem, a distributed network file system designed to provide excellent performance, reliability, and scalability.
• http://ceph.newdream.net

Nov 2009 – Jun 2010 · 7 mos

• On the Kernel team at Lab126, I worked on improving the Kindle.
• I extended and maintained the Kindle software upgrade system. As part of a team, I profiled and improved our boot time. I also debugged and improved some of the vendor-supplied hardware drivers that we used.

May 2009 – Nov 2009 · 6 mos

• I was the first software engineer at Locust Storage, a small startup that developed network attached storage products. I developed most of the code for the first version of our storage product. Our small team overcame many technical challenges and delivered in an impressive timeframe.

Sep 2008 – Feb 2009 · 5 mos

• At Cozybit, I worked on Linux device driver development and board bring-up.. I also helped to improve the kernel's implementation of IEEE 802.11s wireless mesh networking.

Jun 2007 – Sep 2008 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Dash Navigation developed a personal navigation unit with Web 2.0 features. I worked on improving the navigation software and the quality of our on-board digital maps.

Jan 2005 – Jul 2007 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• On the platform team at Laurel Networks, I helped to maintain the compiler, linker, system libraries, Linux kernel, and other platform components. Our team also developed software frameworks and utility libraries for the rest of the company.
• Later, we were acquired by ECI Telecom in a moderately successful exit.