Garrett D'Amore

Experience

illumos

Founder

Nexenta Systems

Employee

Sun Microsystems

Employee

Qualcomm

Employee

General Dynamics

Employee

RackTop Systems

Chief Architect - OS 2018 - Present (almost 8 years)

I'm the technical leader for RackTop's storage platform. We engineer performant, scalable, secure, and conformant storage solutions. Storage, security, together.

Staysail Systems

Founder, CTO & Founder 2017 - 2018 (about 1 year)

Staysail Systems designs highly performant, reliable, and secure messaging systems. Product focus is on low-latency brokerless systems, with products targeting the financial... more

Sauce Labs

Principal Architect 2016 - 2017 (10 months)

Low-level cloud orchestration, designed GPU offload service for Android emulation in the cloud. Identified key performance bottlenecks and engineered solutions to reduce... more

Lucera Financial Infrastructures

Executive Director, Software Engineering 2014 - 2016 (almost 2 years)

I ran and led the team responsible for developing the operating system, as well as extreme low-latency messaging software defined networking.

AMD

Senior Storage Architect 2014 (5 months)

Responsible for the storage architecture for the SeaMicro line of converged compute/storage/networking systems. Technical leadership for the team, architectural vision, and... more

pluribus networks

Principal Software Engineer 2013 - 2014 (7 months)

Platform bring up, device drivers, and support software for systems running Pluribus' software on top of illumos.

Founder

illumos, Staysail Systems

Employee

Sun Microsystems, Nexenta Systems, Qualcomm, General Dynamics, pluribus networks, AMD, Lucera Financial Infrastructures, Sauce Labs, RackTop Systems

Education

About

Achievements

Founded illumos and associated open source community, base platform enabling hundreds of millions of dollars of investment and still growing. I still lead this org technically; work involved both engineering and community building.

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Kernel IllumOS Device Drivers Solaris Team Leadership Technical Leadership Networking Embedded Systems Team Building Debugging NetBSD Git Jira Nfs iSCSI Enterprise Storage (SAN, NAS, DFS)

Garrett D'Amore

Founder DEY Storage Systems; VP Engineering. Founded illumos Open Source operating system project. Technical and engineering leader.

Founded illumos and associated open source community, base platform enabling hundreds of millions of dollars of investment and still growing. I still lead this org technically; work involved both engineering and community building.