Paul Luse
Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation
Chandler, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Luse is a Principal Engineer and Intel storage architect with 30+ years of experience designing high-performance storage systems, device drivers, and cloud-scale distributed storage. He has led cross-company efforts and open source projects—helping to create the industry’s first open-source Windows NVMe driver, authoring an NVM-optimized Windows file system, and shaping OpenStack Swift features like Storage Policies and Erasure Codes. At Intel he drives SPDK enhancements (including lockless async support for Intel DSA and data transformation services) and led the NVML port effort, blending deep kernel and user-space expertise with CI/CD and test automation. His contributions span embedded RAID, persistent memory toolchains, and Windows compatibility work in projects such as PMDK and SPDK, plus sustained test-coverage and reliability improvements to OpenStack Swift. A prolific inventor and speaker with multiple patents and dozens of publications, he pairs rigorous engineering discipline with community leadership—often surfacing subtle system-level optimizations that deliver outsized operational savings. Based in Chandler, Arizona, he combines hands-on technical delivery with long experience mentoring teams and steering large, multi-vendor collaborations.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering at Arizona State UniversityMaster's degree, Organizational Leadership, Master's degree, Organizational Leadership at Univeristy of ColoradoMaster’s Degree, Health Science, Sports Performance, Master’s Degree, Health Science, Sports Performance at Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions
Github Skills (17)
unit-testing10
batching10
python10
windows10
object-storage10
c1110
c1710
performance-optimization10
build-automation10
powershell10
batch10
test-automation10
pmd9
memory-management9
openstack9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
spdk/spdk
May 2017 - Jan 2023
Storage Performance Development Kit
Role in this project:
Backend & Test Automation Engineer
Backend & Test Automation EngineerContributions:566 commits, 1 PR, 675 comments in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Paul Luse primarily worked on the SPDK (Storage Performance Development Kit) repository, contributing enhancements to various areas, including NVMe driver initialization, unit test coverage and code cleanup. His commits added support for batch operations within the framework, particularly for the copy and compression operations, and improving overall performance. The user also fixed bugs in the IDXD (Intel Data Streaming Accelerator Driver) and improved test infrastructure.
development-kitvagrantperformancestoragevirtualbox
openstack/swift
Aug 2013 - Jan 2016
OpenStack Storage (Swift). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:93 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Paul contributed to the OpenStack Swift project by fixing unit test failures and improving test coverage. Their work involved modifying test cases and code to address sporadic failures related to data sorting in the `test_info.py` file and to increase object auditor coverage in `test_auditor.py`, adding new unit tests and refactoring existing tests. They also added and corrected parameter registration for the ratelimit feature.
opendevswiftopenstackstoragemacos
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