Rui Loura is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of industry experience building production-grade compute and storage services, currently driving networking and compute architecture at Oracle from Nashua, NH. He has deep systems expertise spanning virtual networking, ZFS-based storage, PXE/DHCP booting across subnets, and multi-datacenter object rebalancing, with hands-on implementation in Rust, Node.js, C, and scripting languages. Rui’s background includes leading networking subsystems for Oracle’s ZFS Appliance and enhancing Triton compute and Manta object storage at Joyent, where he designed a storage “rebalancer” and Clos-aware network services. Prior roles in systems engineering, manufacturing program management, and signals intelligence bring him a discipline for operational reliability and cross-team coordination that informs his architectural decisions. He holds an MS in Computer Science and Engineering (Networks & Information Assurance) from Santa Clara University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern, blending networking theory with practical, security-conscious system design.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Computer Science and Engineering (Computer Networks and Information Assurance), M.S. Computer Science and Engineering (Computer Networks and Information Assurance) at Santa Clara University
B.S. Electrical Engineering Computer & Electrical Engineering, B.S. Electrical Engineering Computer & Electrical Engineering at Northeastern University
Moray, the highly-available key/value store (Joyent Triton, Manta)
Contributions:58 commits, 40 PRs, 75 pushes in 1 year 5 months
mantadatabasekey-value-storekey-valuetriton
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