Summary
Jeff Goldner is a retired storage and systems engineering leader with nearly three decades of experience building hardware and software products, specializing in storage, clustering, and cloud technologies. A long-time Microsoft principal who led storage management and cloud solutions initiatives, he combined hands-on coding with architecture and standards advocacy (FC, iSCSI, SMI-S, NAS). He has a proven track record of leading teams to deliver OS-level drivers, storage management products, and pre-configured cloud platforms that accelerate tenant workload deployment. Based in Redmond, his background blends deep systems-level expertise from Pathlight through Microsoft with a physics AB from Cornell, reflecting a methodical, problem-driven approach. Even in retirement he remains focused on evolving clustering and cloud patterns, bringing institutional knowledge of standards-based management to contemporary cloud-native challenges.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
AB, Physics, AB, Physics at Cornell University