Summary
John Belshaw is an HPC and network/Linux/storage architect with 15+ years of experience designing and delivering large-scale datacenter and hybrid-cloud infrastructures. He has led teams and projects from procurement to deployment, including the scale-out network architecture for a 10,000-server Linux cluster backed by 50PB of storage and a leaf-spine Arista fabric. His background in space physics and RF/microwave engineering informs a methodical, measurement-driven approach to complex systems and inter-company connectivity for clients like Shell, BP and Maersk. He’s experienced in migration projects (Red Hat to Debian), flash-cache storage prototypes, and specifying hybrid cloud linkages with major providers. Currently focused on low-latency, high-throughput HPC at Hudson River Trading, he combines hands-on engineering, vendor engagement and pragmatic automation to solve both technical and organizational scaling challenges.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc, Physics with Astrophysics, Bsc, Physics with Astrophysics at University of Leeds
MSc, RF & Microwave Engineering, MSc, RF & Microwave Engineering at University of Bradford