Ellis Wilson
Principal Software Engineer Manager at Microsoft
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEllis Wilson is a Principal Software Engineering Manager based in Pittsburgh who blends deep research-grade expertise in distributed file systems and non-volatile memory architectures with hands-on leadership at Microsoft’s Azure Managed Lustre (AMLFS) program. He leads an 8-person core team, drives roadmap and agile transformations, and remains a primary individual contributor—authoring major HSM features and delivering multi-fold performance improvements across observability, I/O, and ingest pipelines. Prior roles as a software architect and engineer at Panasas show a consistent focus on storage product design, all-flash systems, and data acceleration, informed by a PhD in computer science. He’s active in the Lustre community, originated its Documentation Working Group, and frequently presents at Supercomputing and user-group conferences, combining upstream open-source stewardship with cloud product delivery.
3 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Penn State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at La Salle University
Github Skills (24)
swagger10
api10
rest10
azure10
rest-api10
openapi10
microsoft-azure8
microsoft8
sdk7
lustre6
golang5
azure-storage5
blob-storage4
storage4
hsm4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wastore/lemur
Apr 2023 - Apr 2024
Lustre HSM tools
Contributions:12 reviews, 11 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 year
lustrehsm
ellis-wilson-ms/copier
Sep 2023 - Sep 2023
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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