Summary
Adam Brenner is a Distinguished Engineer with 14 years of experience building large-scale storage and data protection systems, currently developing next-generation features in Dell Technologies’ CTO Office for Storage. His background in managing a 6,000+ core HPC cluster at UC Irvine—where he operated distributed filesystems, Infiniband networks, and supported 700+ researchers—gives him deep operational insight into performance, metadata indexing, and large distributed storage. At Dell he has led projects from ransomware detection in backups to parsing filesystem metadata from block devices and has driven microservices-based NAS backup proofs of concept that ship into customer products. He holds over 50 U.S. patents and brings a maker’s curiosity—he jokes that he loves fixing things mostly because he’s the one breaking them—which fuels his blend of hands-on engineering and patent-driven innovation. Based in Mission Viejo, CA, he is also a Distinguished Toastmaster, reflecting strong technical communication and leadership.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Irvine