Summary
Jason Cwik is a senior engineering leader with over two decades of experience architecting and shipping large-scale storage and digital asset management systems, currently heading Infinia Engineering at DDN. He built his career on hands-on engineering—from self-taught BASIC as a child to designing microprocessor-focused systems—and has led teams that manage terabytes to petabytes of media and object storage platforms at Dell EMC and Wheels Up. Jason combines deep technical expertise in object storage, cloud-native architectures (Kubernetes, NVMe-oF, RDMA), and event-driven microservices with proven product and program leadership across global teams and multi-million dollar budgets. He has a track record of modernizing legacy systems into high-performance, maintainable platforms and of turning customer integrations into competitive advantages. Based in Minneapolis–St. Paul, he brings a practical, systems-level mindset informed by early embedded and CAD tooling experience that often guides pragmatic architecture decisions.
8 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Electrical Engineering Microprocessor Design, B.S. Electrical Engineering Microprocessor Design at University of Minnesota