John Bent
Research Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Bent is a research scientist and veteran storage systems architect with 13+ years of experience turning device collections into reliable, large-scale data platforms and driving both product and organizational change. He has led teams and open-source efforts (notably contributing deployment and backend documentation for the CORTX object storage community) and served in senior roles at Seagate, DDN, Cray, EMC and Los Alamos, blending research publications with practical engineering and business impact. Author of 100+ patents and dozens of peer-reviewed papers (h-index 23), he excels at optimizing across hardware and software layers and guiding product inflection points driven by new technologies. Known for building inclusive teams, defining processes that accelerate delivery, and a knack for knowing who to ask and when, he pairs technical design and strategic planning with persuasive storytelling and customer-focused solutions. An uncommon mix of academic rigor, large-scale system design, and community-building fuels his success in turning ambitious storage visions into operational reality.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBA, Anthropology, BA, Anthropology at Amherst CollegeHarrisonburg High School
English, palauan
Github Skills (5)
documentation10
system-administration9
cprogramming-language7
c-language7
makefile6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Seagate/cortx
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
CORTX Community Object Storage is 100% open source object storage uniquely optimized for mass capacity storage devices.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:599 reviews, 1202 commits, 464 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:John updated quickstart guides, VM deployment procedures, and documentation, primarily focused on installation and deployment on CORTX servers. The commits also included merging branch updates and creating documentation for backend architecture and related projects. The contributions involve backend infrastructure and deployment procedures.
s3-storagenvmeinclusivitystoragesoftware-defined-storage
tekinged/missing
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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