Rick Mesta
Round Rock, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Mesta is a bilingual (English/Spanish) software engineer and leader with 25+ years of deep expertise in UNIX, kernel and storage systems, and five years in senior engineering and management roles. He has driven high-impact work across hypervisors, NFS protocol implementations, and cluster networking—authoring kernel-level optimizations and custom transport protocols that significantly improved performance at companies like Sun, Oracle, Nexenta, InfiniteIO and iXsystems. As a manager he scaled and coordinated globally distributed teams, instituted cross-team engineering processes, and doubled engineering talent while maintaining hands-on skills in C, Python, eBPF and Debian Linux. He also blends technical depth with finance and client-facing experience, completing FINRA Series 65 training and running advisory engagements with CRM-driven client onboarding. Known for pragmatic problem solving, Rick often surfaces non-obvious system-level gains (for example, eliminating user-space buffer copies via kernel drivers) that materially accelerate distributed storage performance. Based in Round Rock, Texas, he seeks roles that leverage his systems craftsmanship, leadership, and customer-focused approach.
5 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at El Paso
Spanish, English
Github Skills (50)
git10
middleware10
docker10
debian10
iscsi10
nfs10
storage10
smb10
scale10
zfs10
nas10
freebsd9
filesystem9
kubernetes9
build-system9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
truenas/zectl
May 2021 - May 2022
ZFS Boot Environment manager for Linux
Contributions:5 reviews, 2 commits, 2 PRs in 11 months
linuxzfs
truenas/linux
Aug 2021 - Sep 2022
Linux kernel for TrueNAS SCALE
Contributions:23 reviews, 6 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 1 month
linux-kernel
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