Christopher Voltz
Principal Engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Spring, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Voltz is a Principal Engineer with three-plus decades of hands-on experience designing and shipping high-performance hardware and software across HPC storage, PC graphics/video, and embedded systems. He architects and implements Linux kernel drivers, distributed file system solutions (Lustre/Storage Scale Erasure Code), firmware and mixed-signal board designs, bringing rare full-stack productization expertise from silicon to manufacturing. His background blends low-level C and assembly development, kernel and systems engineering, and modern agile practices including TDD/BDD, enabling robust, testable systems in mission-critical environments. At Hewlett Packard Enterprise he’s driven storage-scale features and cross-disciplinary integration while managing vendor, certification, and production concerns. A Rice MEE with roots in signal processing and VLSI, he pairs deep technical rigor with clear documentation and problem-solving instincts. Notably, he moves fluidly between research-grade algorithmic image processing and production-grade HPC storage, making him effective at bridging prototyping and large-scale deployment.
11 years of coding experience
38 years of employment as a software developer
BSE (Bachelor of Science in Engineering) Computer Systems Engineering, BSE (Bachelor of Science in Engineering) Computer Systems Engineering at Arizona State UniversityMEE (Master of Electrical Engineering) VLSI design advanced optimizing compiler construction DSP/image processing, MEE (Master of Electrical Engineering) VLSI design advanced optimizing compiler construction DSP/image processing at Rice University
English
Github Skills (116)
python10
esoteric-language10
reporter10
automation10
command-line-tool10
ansible-role10
ssh10
linux10
ansible10
golang10
tarball10
cli10
stack-based10
solaris10
openzfs10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
cvoltz/vim
Sep 2015 - Jan 2021
Contributions:11 pushes in 5 years 4 months
cvoltz/resume
Nov 2018 - Jun 2022
Contributions:1 release, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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