Jeff Olivier
Senior Software Engineer - Colussus Client at Google
Longmont, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Olivier is a senior software engineer with 20+ years of systems and runtime experience and a decade focused on high-performance storage and I/O for exascale systems. He has driven backend and build engineering for DAOS and Parallelstore, improving complex build systems, dependency management, and test infrastructure for a major open-source storage stack. At Intel and Google he designed high-performance runtime libraries, binary instrumentation tools, and multithreaded debugging utilities that helped analyze data races, transactional memory, and distributed OpenMP behaviors. Known for quietly improving developer tooling and build robustness, he blends deep low-level systems expertise with practical engineering to ship reliable, high-throughput storage clients. Based in Longmont, Colorado, he pairs a strong research background (UIUC MS) with long-term open-source collaboration and a preference for pragmatic, infrastructure-first solutions.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Brigham Young University
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (10)
dependency-management10
cprogramming-language10
linux9
c-language9
oneapi8
makefile8
package7
rpm7
packager7
packaging7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
daos-stack/daos
Feb 2016 - Jan 2023
DAOS Storage Stack (client libraries, storage engine, control plane)
Role in this project:
Back-end & Build Engineer
Back-end & Build EngineerContributions:4990 reviews, 1048 commits, 4250 PRs in 7 years
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily focused on modifying and improving build processes within the DAOS project. Their contributions include addressing compiler warnings, updating the version requirements for dependencies like PMDK and libfabric, and restructuring the build environment. They also refactored build code and made changes to the test infrastructure to accommodate multiple build types and enhance dependency management, showcasing skills in software builds and system configuration.
pmdkspdkhyperconvergeddaosdistributed-storage
daos-stack/scons_local
Dec 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 116 PRs, 163 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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