Summary
Michael Bott is a senior systems engineer with three decades of experience designing and deploying high-performance storage and distributed systems, currently focused on solutions at Diskover Data. He has held principal engineering and pre/post-sales roles at Hammerspace, Qumulo, Isilon, and DataDirect Networks, bringing deep expertise in scalable NAS, SAN, and media/entertainment workflows. As founder and president of Smashball Labs since 2007, he also builds and manages game teams—an unusual blend of game design creativity and enterprise storage engineering. Based in Rancho Cucamonga, Michael pairs hands-on technical leadership with customer-facing architecture and training, and he’s known for translating complex storage problems into practical, deployable systems.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
ACHS
University of California, Los Angeles