Bob Schatz
Senior System Software Engineer at NVIDIA
San Carlos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBob Schatz is a Senior System Software Engineer with over two decades of deep expertise in high-availability storage, I/O fencing and distributed systems, currently building system software at NVIDIA. He has led design and implementation of production Raft-based consensus, distributed lock managers, and self-healing etcd-backed configuration platforms across NetApp, SwiftStack (acquired by NVIDIA) and Symantec/VERITAS. Bob holds patents on cluster I/O fencing techniques and has a track record of making storage clusters resilient to split-brain and corruption scenarios. Comfortable shipping low-level drivers through cloud-native control planes, he programs in Go and focuses on exactly-once RPC semantics and mirrored metadata for robust cluster state. Based in San Carlos, he blends enterprise-scale reliability engineering with hands-on systems craftsmanship that spans from SCSI drivers to Kubernetes building blocks.
9 years of coding experience
35 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Millersville University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (1)
openstack-swift3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
NVIDIA/proxyfs
Aug 2017 - Jul 2021
Contributions:8 reviews, 187 commits, 132 PRs in 3 years 11 months
swiftstack/runway
Nov 2018 - Jan 2021
An easy way to get up and going with OpenStack Swift
Contributions:5 PRs, 8 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 2 months
openstack-swift
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