Byron Rakitzis
Technical Fellow at Seattle Bach Festival
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolByron Rakitzis is a storage software expert and technical fellow with two decades of experience building scalable, high-performance filesystems and storage services. He blends a generalist’s problem-solving approach with deep systems engineering, having co-founded a storage startup that scaled to a Fortune 500 IPO and later shaped S3 Glacier-class storage at AWS. His recent roles span major cloud and data companies including Google, Snowflake, and Diskover Data, reflecting hands-on work across product startups and hyperscale engineering. Based in Seattle, he pairs an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington with long-term, practical experience dating back to early NetApp-era storage work. Outside engineering he is an active board member of the Seattle Bach Festival and a lifelong baroque musician, an uncommon creative lens he brings to technical leadership. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architectures that balance performance, scalability, and operational simplicity.
12 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
MS Electrical Engineering, MS Electrical Engineering at University of WashingtonPrinceton University
Greek, German, Dutch, English
Github Skills (27)
programming-language10
go10
golang10
unix9
code-generator9
code-generation9
shell9
messagepack8
web-application8
filesystem7
disk-space7
crawler7
console-application6
file-manager6
regular-expression6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rakitzis/rc
Jan 2014 - Aug 2021
rc shell -- independent re-implementation for Unix of the Plan 9 shell (from circa 1992)
Contributions:7 reviews, 3 commits, 16 PRs in 7 years 7 months
shellunix
rakitzis/siphash
Oct 2015 - Aug 2018
Go implementation of SipHash-2-4, a fast short-input PRF created by Jean-Philippe Aumasson and Daniel J. Bernstein.
Contributions:8 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 10 months
golangbernsteinsiphashshort
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