Rob Ketcherside
Sr. Engineering Manager at Dell Technologies
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRob Ketcherside is a senior engineering manager at Dell who leads teams building file system features for OneFS in PowerScale, with a strong focus on bridging NAS storage and S3-like object stores and native HDFS integration. He brings over a decade of experience managing cross-functional engineering and program teams, previously shaping cloud archive, HDFS, and program management practices that became corporate best practices after EMC’s acquisition. Known for shipping complex distributed storage features reliably, Rob blends technical problem-solving with hands-on leadership and a track record of turning customer expectations into production-grade solutions. Outside of engineering he pursues serious historical research—authoring Lost Seattle, publishing datasets publicly, and contributing rephotography columns—bringing data-curation and storytelling skills that inform his practical approach to documentation and stakeholder communication. He’s also active in community leadership as a Cub Scout leader and a LEGO exhibitor, signaling a knack for organization, teaching, and creative systems thinking.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
University of WashingtonHarvard UniversityMS Project Management, MS Project Management at The George Washington University School of BusinessEast Asian Studies Japanese, East Asian Studies Japanese at Western Washington University
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
ambari9
java9
python9
provisioning9
javascript8
monitoring8
onefs8
isilon7
apache-hadoop7
big-data7
hadoop6
hdfs4
language-bindings3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ro-ket/isilon_hadoop_tools
Jul 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:7 pushes, 25 branches in 1 year
treesfilesystemaccountsuser-accountsibm
ro-ket/isilon-hadoop-tools
Aug 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
hadoopemcisilon
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