Andreas Dilger
Principal Architect at The Lustre Collective
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAndreas Dilger is a Principal Architect with 18 years designing and steering high-performance parallel filesystems, currently guiding Lustre development for the world’s largest supercomputers from Calgary, Canada. He has led Lustre architecture and roadmaps across Whamcloud and Intel, progressing a single project from its early prototypes at Cluster File Systems to production deployments at top-tier HPC centers. Deeply practical and hands-on, Andreas contributes low-level filesystem improvements upstream—his work includes micro-optimizations and checksum/block-group support in e2fsprogs—showing comfort across kernel and userspace. Known for pairing customer-focused troubleshooting on critical production systems with team leadership, he moves complex distributed-storage features from design through global release. Trained in nonlinear systems and engineering at the University of Calgary, he combines rigorous systems thinking with decades of operational experience in HPC storage.
18 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Non Linear Systems, Non Linear Systems at University of Calgary
German, French
Github Skills (7)
c1710
error-handling10
filesystem10
low-level-programming10
c1110
system-programming9
memory-management9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
tytso/e2fsprogs
Mar 2008 - Aug 2022
Ext2/3/4 file system utilities
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:151 commits in 14 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily contributed to the Ext2/3/4 file system utilities by addressing various bugs and implementing enhancements to improve functionality. They modified the copyright notices and added support for setting block group checksum calculations and other low-level file system features. Furthermore, the user refactored functions for improved error handling, optimized inode scanning and made a series of micro-optimizations.
ext2filesystem
adilger/io500
Sep 2020 - Nov 2025
IO500 Storage Benchmark source code
Contributions:7 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years 2 months
benchmarkstorage
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