Andy Pernsteiner
Field CTO at VAST Data
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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SeniorAndy Pernsteiner is a Field CTO with 12 years of hands-on experience architecting clustered storage and datacenter solutions, currently leading technical strategy at VAST Data from Portland, Oregon. He progressed from support engineer roles at Amazon and Isilon to pre-sales, field enablement, and product engineering, consistently acting as a team lead and process innovator that reduced operational overhead. Andy specializes in high-performance NAS integration, Linux/Unix/BSD administration, and automation with Python/Perl/shell, focusing on optimizing data flow from creation to deep archive. He has a proven track record influencing large enterprise deals and shortening sales cycles by equipping teams with competitive technical positioning. Comfortable in startup-paced environments, he combines deep troubleshooting instincts with creative problem solving to accelerate customer outcomes and revenue growth. A detail not obvious from titles alone: his career is rooted in escalation and field service work, which gives him uncommon empathy for operational realities when designing scalable storage architectures.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (58)
azure-storage8
azure-data-lake8
stress-testing8
benchmarking8
hive-metastore8
benchmark8
amazon7
metastore7
throughput7
s3-bucket7
aws-s36
azure-blob-storage6
amazon-s36
filesystem6
fuse6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
andypern/vast-scripts
Feb 2020 - Apr 2024
Contributions:23 PRs, 47 pushes, 15 branches in 4 years 2 months
andypern/drill-beta-demo
Aug 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:39 commits, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 11 months
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