Alex Aizman
Distinguished Engineer at NVIDIA
Malden, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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RockstarAlex Aizman is a distinguished engineer and serial storage innovator with over a decade of experience architecting distributed storage and storage-optimized communication protocols. As founder and CTO of Nexenta he scaled an open-source Software-Defined Storage company to 6.5K customers and 1.5 exabytes deployed, and now drives storage strategy and architecture at NVIDIA. He co-created widely adopted kernel technologies such as open-iscsi and Large Receive Offload, holds 15+ patents, and contributes security and token-management improvements to prominent open-source projects like AIStore. Known for blending deep systems design with hands-on implementation, he pairs entrepreneurial leadership with a continued passion for applying neural networks and mentoring engineering teams. Based in Malden, MA, he balances technical rigor with practical product delivery—and still finds time to run and hike with his dog.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
English, Russian, Hebrew
Github Skills (10)
user-authentication10
authentication10
go10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
system8
architecture8
architectures8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
NVIDIA/aistore
Dec 2017 - Jan 2023
AIStore: scalable storage for AI applications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & System Architect
Back-end Developer & System ArchitectContributions:47 releases, 5 reviews, 2567 commits in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on implementing and consolidating authentication-related functionalities. The commits demonstrate the creation and refactoring of a token management package, integrating JWT calls, and streamlining security aspects. Code changes involve modifications across multiple files and a new "tok" package, indicating architectural improvements.
scalabledeep-learningdistributed-shufflemachine-learninghyper-converged
hqr/surge
Sep 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:91 pushes, 3 branches, 15 comments in 1 year 3 months
discrete-eventsimulation-frameworkclusterssimulationdiscrete
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