Eco Willson
Performance Engineer at MinIO
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEco Willson is a Performance Engineer with seven years of focused experience in Linux, virtualization (ESX/vSphere, KVM, AWS/EC2), and container tooling who now contributes to performance at MinIO. He specialises in hypervisor and VM performance tuning, Linux storage and GlusterFS, and has a proven track record of turning operational pain points into repeatable processes and documentation. Past roles span hands-on enterprise support and customer-facing leadership—from VMware and PayPal to Red Hat and MinIO—where he resolved SEV1 incidents, accelerated provisioning workflows, and mentored teams. Based in San Jose, he combines deep systems-level troubleshooting with strong communication skills and a knack for integrating S3 ecosystems into real-world deployments. An uncommon strength is his blend of frontline escalation experience and community advocacy for open-source storage best practices, enabling both technical fixes and broader organizational improvements.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Cabrillo and UCSC extension
Github Skills (48)
kubernetes10
minio10
filesystem10
sphinx10
freebsd10
storage10
object-storage10
minio-client10
go10
aws10
amazon-s310
cloud-object-storage10
aws-s310
golang10
warp10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
eco-minio/minio-service
Apr 2019 - Nov 2021
Collection of MinIO server scripts for upstart, systemd, sysvinit, launchd.
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
citrixminio-serverserver-scriptsminiolaunchd
eco-minio/deployment-assets
Nov 2024 - Feb 2025
Benchmarking baseline install assets
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 22 pushes in 3 months
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