Paul Zuchowski
Senior Software Developer at RackTop Systems
Westerly, Rhode Island, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Zuchowski is a Senior Software Developer and systems engineer with over two decades of experience focused on file systems, storage, and medical imaging, currently contributing to RackTop Systems. He has a deep technical pedigree in ZFS and NAS technologies from roles at Datto, Oracle, GreenBytes and as an open-source contributor to the flagship OpenZFS project where he fixed core bugs and built test suites for zdb. A former VP Engineering at Heartlab, Paul blends hands-on kernel and systems development (C/C++, SQL, ZFS internals) with product-level responsibility across imaging, DICOM and archiving systems. He is a certified Scrum Master and pairs rigorous engineering practice with agile delivery. Unusually, he also holds a BA in Music from Brown alongside Computer Science, reflecting a creative side that complements his technical problem-solving. Based in Westerly, RI, he is known for quietly improving reliability and observability in critical storage codepaths.
8 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science at Brown University
Github Skills (8)
c1710
debug10
filesystem10
c1110
zfs10
testing10
compression8
compress8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
openzfs/zfs
Mar 2018 - Aug 2022
OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:27 reviews, 40 commits, 32 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the ZFS project by identifying and fixing bugs within the core codebase. Their contributions included addressing issues related to the handling of extended attributes, generation number comparisons, and problems with the zdb utility. They also implemented and maintained test suites, particularly for the zdb tool, ensuring the reliability and accuracy of ZFS functionalities. The user's work involved making improvements to error messages and addressing issues related to data compression and block handling.
openzfstarballlinuxfreebsdsystem-software
PaulZ-98/sdb
Nov 2020 - Aug 2022
The Slick Debugger
Contributions:34 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 9 months
slickdebugger
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