Dean Hildebrand
Technical Director at Google
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolDean Hildebrand is a Principal Software Engineer and Technical Director in Google Cloud’s Office of the CTO with 26 years of software and research experience and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Michigan. He has spent over 15 years designing and shipping large-scale distributed storage systems, driving product and research impact at IBM and Google and shepherding technologies like GPFS/Spectrum Scale, pNFS, object storage, and container volume drivers into production. A prolific inventor and scholar, he’s authored 31 publications, filed 50+ patents, and regularly chairs program committees for top systems conferences such as FAST and Supercomputing. Dean combines deep protocol and systems-level expertise with customer-facing architecture work, having designed first-of-a-kind storage infrastructures for dozens of enterprise clients. Unobvious strength: he’s repeatedly translated academic research into multi-million-dollar production wins and broad open-source adoption, bridging labs, product teams, and the field.
26 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of MichiganBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
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Github Skills (34)
benchmark9
benchmarking9
storage8
iobroker8
ubiquity8
notebook7
docker6
machine-learning6
jupyter6
tensorflow5
python5
kubernetes5
data-science4
kubeflow4
docker-swarm4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
IO500/submission-system
Sep 2023 - Apr 2024
source code for our entry submission system
Contributions:3 reviews, 1 PR, 1 push in 6 months
IO500/webpage
Feb 2021 - Dec 2022
Sources for the io500.org website pages.
Contributions:26 reviews, 3 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 10 months
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