Carlos Maltzahn
Retired Adjunct Professor at University of California, Santa Cruz
California, United States
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Top SchoolCarlos Maltzahn is a systems researcher and founder who spent nearly two decades at UC Santa Cruz building and directing labs that drive open-source, scalable storage and distributed systems research. He founded the Center for Research in Open Source Software and the Systems Research Lab, co-mentored Ceph’s early development, and has guided a generation of Ph.D. and M.S. students into academic and industry impact. His work bridges practical reproducible systems evaluation, programmable storage, and big data management, funded by foundations, U.S. government agencies, and industry partners. Based in California, he combines deep research rigor from a Ph.D. in computer science with hands-on program building and open-source stewardship that continues to influence production storage ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of Colorado BoulderUniv. Diplom, Informatik, Linguistik, Univ. Diplom, Informatik, Linguistik at Universität Passau
German, English
Github Skills (55)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
acm-rep/2025
Aug 2024 - Oct 2025
Repository for https://acm-rep.github.io/2025
Contributions:1 review, 97 PRs, 73 pushes in 1 year 2 months
ucsc-ospo/ucsc-ospo.github.io
Apr 2022 - Feb 2023
Website of the Open Source Program Office, UC Santa Cruz
Contributions:258 reviews, 185 commits, 663 PRs in 9 months
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