Paul Nowoczynski
High Performance Storage Systems Programmer And Innovator
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Nowoczynski is a seasoned storage systems architect with two decades of experience building high-performance distributed storage for HPC, AI/ML, and enterprise environments. He led development of breakthrough systems like DDN’s IME—the first to exceed 1 TB/s—and earlier pioneered burst-buffer concepts (Zest) that influenced widely cited research, demonstrating a rare ability to turn research ideas into production-scale deployments. Paul combines deep expertise in erasure coding, parallel filesystems, and topology-aware data placement to deliver extreme throughput, low latency, and efficient TCO across large clusters. Currently he is designing a clustered block storage platform that marries novel erasure codes with node-local and top-of-rack placement to accelerate training, inference, and real-time scientific workflows. His career blends hands-on systems engineering at places like PSC and DigitalOcean with entrepreneurial freelance work (e.g., PumiceDB), making him equally fluent in prototyping novel algorithms and shipping robust production systems.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Information Science, BS, Information Science at University of Pittsburgh
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
tcm7
truncation6
io-uring6
format-string6
printf6
testing5
parallel4
rdma4
daemon4
aix4
uds4
tpm4
stress-testing4
userspace4
rust3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
00pauln00/niova-core
Dec 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 36 pushes in 1 year 4 months
00pauln00/yapio
Sep 2017 - Apr 2019
yapio - Yet Another Parallel I/O Testing Tool
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 21 pushes in 1 year 7 months
stress-testingparallelrusttestingyet-another
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