Dave Olker
Master Technologist Storage And Cloud Group at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Rocklin, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Olker is a Master Technologist with over 30 years of hands-on experience designing high-performance storage, virtualization, and cloud solutions, now focused on Storage and Cloud at HPE. He combines deep systems-level expertise across UNIX, Linux, and Windows with practical automation skills—authoring Ansible playbooks and PowerShell tools that deploy production-ready CaaS and private cloud environments in minutes. Known for solving the toughest performance and production escalations, he has driven large-scale POCs (including Oracle consolidation on Superdome X) and earned a patent for a Serviceguard NFS recovery mechanism. A frequent presenter and mentor, Dave translates complex architectures into repeatable reference designs, training, and open-source tooling used by customers and partners. Based in Rocklin, CA, he brings a rare blend of lab R&D, field validation, and customer-facing engineering that accelerates adoption of composable and infrastructure-as-code approaches.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
San José State University
Github Skills (29)
python10
ansible10
ssh10
pwd9
network-configuration9
hardware9
automation9
openshift9
docker8
documentation8
language-bindings8
command-line8
console7
windows7
rancher7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
HewlettPackard/OpenShift-on-SimpliVity
Jun 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:89 commits, 21 PRs, 12 pushes in 6 months
daveolker/Populate-HPE-Synergy
Mar 2017 - Sep 2020
Quickly and reliably configure an HPE Synergy virtual appliance with all included hardware.
Contributions:1 review, 82 commits, 6 PRs in 3 years 7 months
hardware
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