Sven Breuner
Field CTO International
Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Area Germany
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Top SchoolSven Breuner is a Field CTO and founder with deep expertise in performance-critical distributed systems, storage, and Linux kernel-level engineering. He architected and led development of BeeGFS at Fraunhofer, spun it out as ThinkParQ where he scaled adoption across top HPC centers worldwide, and later served in strategic Field CTO roles at Excelero and VAST Data. His background combines hands-on systems design—process management on heterogeneous clusters and distributed metadata for parallel file systems—with commercial leadership in building partner channels and professional services. Based in the Frankfurt Rhine-Main area, he blends research-grade technical depth with startup-scale go-to-market experience, and is known for turning high-performance research prototypes into production-grade storage platforms.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
M. Sc., Computer Science, M. Sc., Computer Science at Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)B. Sc., Computer Science, B. Sc., Computer Science at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
German, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (41)
benchmark10
docker10
parallel10
windows10
storage10
linux10
benchmarking10
gpu10
ecosystem9
rdma9
container9
nvme9
aws-sdk9
hdfs9
aws9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Excelero/ninja-tools
Apr 2020 - Nov 2020
System check tools that shouldn't be missing from any storage ninja's utility belt
Contributions:8 commits, 13 pushes in 7 months
beltninjastoragemissing
breuner/elbencho
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
A distributed storage benchmark for file systems, object stores & block devices with support for GPUs
Contributions:39 releases, 15 reviews, 205 commits in 2 years 7 months
benchmarkingbenchmarkstoragestoresdistributed-storage
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