Seal Storage Technology

Solutions Architect - Decentralized Storage and Web3 Technologies

web3mine

Solutions Architect - Decentralized Storage and Web 3.0

Seagate Technology

Aug 2017-Jan 2021
Reference Architecture Design Lead
 - Multiple CEPH, ZFS, MinIO, SwiftStack published reference designs
 - Partner with major SDS and Linux Vendors.
Lab manager
 - lead site-wide reorg of 7 labs.
Lead provisioning Engineer
 - Created a bare-metal provisioning system via Salt Stack for high availability storage clusters.
 - Was able to replace two full-time provisioning engineers by switching to Salt Stack.

March 2015 - August 2016
Engineering lead for Seagate A200 HSM solution.
- Architect and primary author of Seagate’s HSM data mover nodes.
- Lead international team to deliver a final product.
- Created virtualized (KVM, AWS) build and test infrastructure.
- Agile methodologies and test-driven development evangelist.
- Performed on-site field engineering support for HPC clusters.
- Won a peer-nominated award for outstanding customer advocacy.

Staff Software Engineer

Intel Corporation

- Authored enterprise management modules for a new storage technology.
- Authored C & C++ wbem provider for sensors.
- Worked with driver team to refactor IOCTL interface.
- Platform targets include Windows, Linux and VMWare.
- Ported code base to VMware ESX
- Reduced build times by 200%

Contract Senior Software Developer

Spectra Logic

- Inventor of Spectra Logic device branding algorithm.
- Lead developer of Likewise CIFs/SMB server on FreeBSD.
- Lead developer of Microsoft Protocol Test Suite (model based testing).
- Lead support engineer for NFSE (NFS) on FreeBSD..
- Co-authored FreeBSD Xen Netback driver.
- Profiling and testing of various ZFS RAIDZ configurations.
- Created and presented training content to support personnel.

Senior Staff Engineer

Rebit Inc.

Founding team member, part owner.

- Co-authored patented live NTFS backup system.
- Created Rebit Content File System (object store)
- Designed  UPNP dynamic network attached storage framework.
- Authored all Rebit service daemons and system event handlers.
- Implemented several build and test systems.

Project Engineer

Magpie Telecom Insiders

- Logitech Inc. – Integration of VOIP products with Windows Live Messenger. 
- Logitech Inc. – Integration of Logitech Fusion WebCam with Skype
- Carrier Access – Test and build automation engineer
- McData Corporation – Firmware development for fiber channel router

Maxtor

- Creator of Download Microcode protocol and implementation.
- Creator of Device Control Block SATA command tunneling protocol.
- Lead architect of Maxtor Common Code (MCCL) drive library.
- Contributor to Maxtor Common Driver Library (MCDL).
- Lead support engineer for OEM firmware update.
- Developed data reliability testing methods for Maxtor hard disk.

Onstream B.V.

- Lead media test engineer.
- Developed firmware used in test and product development.
- Developed core C++ class library used in all manufacturing and testing.
- Debugged ATAPI, USB, and 1394 drive implementation issues.
- Pioneered multimedia applications of OnStream tape drives.
- Lead corrective action activities with media partners.

Software Engineer

I'm a tenacious team player who thrives on new challenges. 

I like opportunities that allow me to leverage my years of low-level hardware expertise with the design and development of high-level software systems.

Taplio

John Suykerbuyk's Linkedin Analytics

Want to drive more opportunities from LinkedIn?

Taplio

.css-1jgreyo{background-image:linear-gradient(284deg, rgba(39,43,72,1) 0%, rgba(33,47,183,1) 100%);color:transparent;-webkit-background-clip:text;background-clip:text;}John Suykerbuyk's Linkedin Analytics

Want to drive more opportunities from LinkedIn?

John Suykerbuyk's Linkedin Analytics