Jim Harris
Principal Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Chandler, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Harris is a Principal Software Engineer with over two decades of experience specializing in high-performance storage software, currently contributing to NVIDIA after senior roles at Samsung and a 22-year tenure at Intel. He architected and core-maintains the widely used SPDK (Storage Performance Development Kit), shaping its userspace polled-mode NVMe framework and growing it into an industry-critical open-source project with contributions from 350+ committers. Jim combines deep low-level protocol and driver expertise (including FreeBSD NVMe work used by large-scale CDNs) with cross-geo technical leadership and mentoring. Known for pragmatic architecture and performance-first designs, he excels at translating product and silicon needs into robust, production-ready storage infrastructure.
14 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at Case Western Reserve UniversityMaumee High School
Github Skills (11)
algorithm10
data-structures10
algorithms10
storage10
protocols10
datastructures-algorithms10
c-programming10
rdma10
data-structure10
nvme10
linux-kernel9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
spdk/spdk
Sep 2015 - Jan 2023
Storage Performance Development Kit
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1763 commits, 33 PRs, 2599 pushes in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jim Harris is primarily involved in developing and maintaining the NVMe storage performance development kit (SPDK). His commits focus on improving the reliability, performance, and functionality of the NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) transport. He has demonstrated expertise in backend development by working with low-level storage protocols, device interaction and the supporting infrastructure needed for it to work.
development-kitvagrantperformancestoragevirtualbox
spdk/rocksdb
Jun 2016 - Apr 2019
SPDK RocksDB mirror
Contributions:54 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
spdkrocksdblsm-treedatabasekey-value-database
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