Ulf Troppens
Product Manager - IBM Storage For Data And AI
Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Area Germany
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Top SchoolUlf Troppens is a product manager and storage architect with over 25 years of experience designing and validating large-scale storage solutions for data-intensive science, genomics, autonomous driving, and AI workflows. At IBM he leads Spectrum Scale-based initiatives to accelerate ultra-fast data acquisition and analysis, and serves as the global focal for the Spectrum Scale User Group. His career spans the full product lifecycle—development, test, technical sales and support—and includes a year in India mentoring and integrating a young team into a worldwide organization. A frequent conference speaker, member of patent review boards and author of the award-winning textbook "Storage Networks Explained," he has filed 47 patent applications and repeatedly refreshed his book as a university textbook. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic reference architectures and proof-of-concept validation of multi-petabyte environments, blending deep technical rigor with hands-on customer partnership.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Informatiker Computer Science, Diplom-Informatiker Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
German, English
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Github Skills (95)
vagrantfile10
vagrant10
startup10
spectrum10
virtualbox10
vcenter10
scale9
hierarchical9
data-migration9
dynamic-data9
hierarchical-temporal-memory8
ansible8
infrastructure-management8
ansible-role8
temporal8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
IBM/StorageScaleVagrant
Jan 2019 - May 2022
Example scripts and configuration files to install and configure IBM Storage Scale in a Vagrant environment
Contributions:1 review, 164 commits, 17 PRs in 3 years 4 months
vagrantvcentergpfsansibleinfrastructure-management
troppens/hpc-examples
Aug 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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