Allen Samuels
Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolAllen Samuels is a Principal Engineer and seasoned technology entrepreneur with over four decades of experience driving storage, networking, and systems architecture from ideation to market. He has founded three companies, led successful exits and fundraises, and most recently applies his expertise to in-memory databases at AWS. Known for bridging hardware and software — from semiconductors and embedded systems to cloud-scale storage, de-duplication, and virtualization — he blends hands-on engineering (Python, C/C++, Java) with product strategy and go-to-market leadership. At SanDisk and Western Digital he shaped flash adoption in the data center, accelerated Ceph performance, and architected web-scale low-latency storage and computational accelerators for genomics and big data. A frequent keynote speaker and trusted advisor to academic-industry partnerships, he often translates complex technical tradeoffs into business-aligned decisions. Beyond high-level strategy, he still digs into implementation details and system modeling, a rarity for executives at his level.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering at Rice University
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Github Skills (43)
infiniband10
glusterfs10
kubernetes10
fat10
rdma10
iscsi10
nfs10
fuse10
openebs10
storage10
blob-storage10
hdfs10
smb10
data-exchange10
nvme10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
allensamuels/oldcephslab
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:594 branches in 1 day
allensamuels/ceph
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
file-storagecephdatabasestoragedistributed
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