Robert Read
Principal Engineer at The Lustre Collective
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Read is a Principal Engineer with 13+ years of experience building and architecting large-scale storage and distributed systems, currently leading engineering at The Lustre Collective. He has a deep history with the Lustre filesystem—shaping releases and productizing cloud-integrated Lustre at Intel and as an early engineer at Whamcloud—and maintains an active interest in open-source data management tools. Based in New York, he pairs systems-level engineering with entrepreneurial experience founding multiple photography businesses, bringing a creative, user-focused perspective to technical problems. His work spans kernel and cloud integration, storage recovery and administration utilities, and shipping marketplace-ready products for AWS. Beyond engineering, he trains and shoots professional headshots, applying an understanding of human expression and storytelling to help others present themselves better online. This mix of low-level technical depth and client-facing creative practice gives him a practical edge in designing resilient systems that serve real users.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at California State University - East Bay
Github Skills (48)
filesystem10
lustre10
go-interface10
hsm10
golang9
go9
grpc9
macos-big-sur8
zfs8
power-management8
resolutions8
go-language7
management6
cli-application6
solaris6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
whamcloud/lemur
Jun 2015 - Mar 2017
Lustre HSM tools
Contributions:3 releases, 179 commits, 17 pushes in 1 year 9 months
hsmlustregogolanggrpc
whamcloud/go-lustre
Aug 2014 - Dec 2016
Go interface for Lustre's utility library (liblustreapi).
Contributions:109 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
go-interfacelustre
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