Tim Feldman
Retired at .
Louisville, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Feldman is a retired principal technologist with decades of deep expertise in storage hardware and software, having driven innovations from ATA/SCSI drive firmware to datacenter-scale zoned block devices and object/key-value storage. He led Seagate’s SMR interface strategy and co-architected industry‑changing technologies such as zoned block devices, Flex Dynamic Recording, and the Kinetic Open Storage platform, blending VLSI system modeling with practical product-level optimizations for cost, performance, reliability and power. His portfolio spans HDD, SSD, hybrid and optical media, with hands-on work in caching, log-structured journaling, tiering, compression, DRMs and peripheral protocols like SATA, SAS and FC. Tim’s career combines engineering management and individual technical authorship, guiding cross-disciplinary teams to market-driven disruptive innovations. Based in Louisville, Colorado, he also served as Seagate’s representative on the UCSC Center for Research in Open Source Software board, reflecting a long-standing commitment to open platforms such as HDFS and OpenStack. An electrical and computer engineering graduate from CU Boulder, he is known for translating low-level device physics into scalable storage architectures.
7 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Colorado at Boulder
English, c++, python
Github Skills (25)
ata10
scsi10
eve10
sata10
endpoint-security9
parser9
storage9
logging9
macos8
linux8
ide8
windows8
nvme8
sourceforge8
sas8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Seagate/opensea-parser
Aug 2018 - Feb 2023
Open source parser for SCSI/ATA/NVMe and Seagate vendor unique logs.
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 519 commits in 4 years 6 months
vendoreveendpoint-securityataseagate
Seagate/openSeaChest_LogParser
Dec 2018 - Feb 2023
Open source version of the Log Parser that parses ATA/SCSI/NVMe & Seagate vendor unique logs
Contributions:4 releases, 1 review, 146 commits in 4 years 2 months
vendorataseagatelogginglog-parser
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