Petros Koutoupis
Senior Product Manager at RapidDisk.Org
South Elgin, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPetros Koutoupis is a Senior Product Manager and seasoned UNIX/Linux engineer with 10+ years building kernel-level storage solutions and high-performance systems for supercomputing and cloud platforms. He led architecture and delivery at IBM and HPE/Cray, driving Lustre-based ClusterStor performance and designing distributed object storage that powered IBM Cloud, while also mentoring cross-functional teams. As creator and long-time maintainer of the open-source RapidDisk RAM drive project, he blends deep kernel and embedded expertise with product strategy and hands-on development. Based in South Elgin, Illinois, he pairs a pragmatic engineering mindset with a prolific freelance writing background for Linux publications, making complex storage concepts accessible. An unusual strength: he transitions comfortably between low-level device drivers and product-level roadmaps, shipping production storage features from kernel patches to customer deployments.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science Electronic Engineering Technology (EET), Bachelors of Science Electronic Engineering Technology (EET) at DeVry University
English, Greek
Github Skills (59)
ramdisk10
ramdrive10
caching10
btrfs10
volumes10
redhat10
bitbake10
debian10
suse10
aix10
centos10
storage10
ram10
linux10
opensuse10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pkoutoupis/rapiddisk
Sep 2015 - Jan 2023
Contributions:21 releases, 64 reviews, 180 commits in 7 years 5 months
kernelubunturamdiskstandsuse
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