Summary
Jeff Mickey is a seasoned storage and systems engineer with 18 years building high-performance storage at companies such as OpenAI, Meta, Google Cloud Storage, Pure Storage, and NetApp. He specializes in large-scale storage systems and performance engineering, with deep experience across FlashBlade, FlashRay, and clustered SAN architectures. Based in San Francisco, he combines hands-on technical leadership with a knack for translating low-level performance work into production-ready cloud services. His career spans both product-focused startups and hyperscale platform teams, giving him perspective on trade-offs from prototype to global deployment. A longtime Linux contributor and former Arch Linux developer, he brings an open-source mindset and pragmatic curiosity to complex infrastructure problems.
18 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Virginia Tech