Nick Principe
Performance Engineering Manager at TrueNAS
Maryville, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolNick Principe is a Performance Engineering Manager with eight years of focused leadership in storage performance testing and benchmarking, now leading performance efforts at TrueNAS. He has a long track record at iXsystems and Dell EMC designing test labs, developing automation frameworks, and producing customer-facing performance reports for NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and FC protocols. An industry influencer, Nick serves as Secretary of the SPEC Storage subcommittee, co-chairs SNIA’s Workload TWG, and contributed to the SNIA Emerald 3.0 spec—roles that reflect deep standards and tooling expertise beyond typical engineering management. He pairs hands-on scripting and benchmarking experience (vdbench, SPEC SFS series, iometer) with the strategic perspective gained from a Harvard Business School Online leadership certificate. Based in Maryville, Tennessee, he’s committed to demystifying storage performance for customers, vendors, and developers while building reproducible, industry-standard benchmarks. Colleagues rely on him for turning complex storage behavior into clear, actionable guidance.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityOther; Certificate in Leadership Principles, Complete, Other; Certificate in Leadership Principles, Complete at Harvard Business School Online
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (26)
zfs9
scale8
storage8
nfs8
testing7
middleware7
hardware7
git-repository7
ascii6
feed6
smb6
iscsi4
graphical-user-interface4
streaming3
documentation3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
powernap/trueos
Jun 2018 - Jul 2024
TrueOS Core Operating System Repo
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 1 month
operating-systemmacosoperating
powernap/freebsd
Jul 2018 - Jul 2024
FreeBSD src tree (read-only mirror)
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
bsdfreebsdjailsrcread-only
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