Summary
Peter Lauterbach is a seasoned cloud platforms product leader with nine years in product management and over three decades of deep performance engineering and storage architecture experience. Currently at Red Hat, he combines hands-on technical expertise—from virtualization and enterprise storage to performance benchmarking—with strong product ownership and agile team leadership. His track record includes delivering scalability and data protection features that doubled cluster sizes and improved backup performance, and guiding cross-functional teams through POCs, design, and customer escalations. Known for building high-performance teams and mentoring new PMs, he also has a rare background as both an L4 support engineer and director-level manager, enabling tight customer and field engagement. Based in Boston, he brings an unusual blend of physics-trained analytical thinking, practical performance methods instruction, and MBA-backed business insight to complex cloud product problems.
9 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
'Practical Performance Methods', Western Institute of Computer Science Series (WISC), 'Practical Performance Methods', Western Institute of Computer Science Series (WISC) at Stanford University
Sustaining High Performance, Manager and Director Development, Sustaining High Performance, Manager and Director Development at Babson College
2006, Invited Lecturer, Enterprise Storage Systems CSG389: Special Topics in Computer Systems, 2006, Invited Lecturer, Enterprise Storage Systems CSG389: Special Topics in Computer Systems at Northeastern University
Master of Business Administration (MBA), High Tech MBA, Master of Business Administration (MBA), High Tech MBA at D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University
Bachelor of Science, Physics, Bachelor of Science, Physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2005, Invited Lecturer, Topics in Computer Systems, 2005, Invited Lecturer, Topics in Computer Systems at Brandeis University