Ulrich Hansen
Principal Cloud Hardware Storage Architect at Microsoft
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolUlrich Hansen is a Principal Cloud Hardware Storage Architect based in San Jose with over a decade of experience shaping data center storage strategy and products at scale. He combines executive product leadership and hands-on technical depth, having led SSD and HDD roadmaps, ecosystem partnerships, and go-to-market execution for Western Digital and now defines cloud-scale storage solutions at Microsoft. His track record includes driving market-leading share positions, enabling the industry’s first NVMe-based storage arrays, and delivering prototypes for NVMe-oF and ZNS SSDs. Ulrich blends MBA-level strategic planning with an electrical engineering foundation, which he leverages to align technology investments with customer and partner priorities. He’s known for building high-performing cross-functional teams and for influencing industry standards—an often underappreciated lever he uses to accelerate product adoption. Practical, strategic, and deeply networked across hyperscalers, OEMs and ecosystem players, he turns complex storage challenges into deployable cloud solutions.
12 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Coprorate Strategy Finance Marketing MIS, MBA Coprorate Strategy Finance Marketing MIS at Texas McCombs School of BusinessMaster of EE Electrical Engineering / Computer Science, Master of EE Electrical Engineering / Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University
GermanGithub contributions (3)
ulrich-hansen/desktop-theme-kit
Nov 2013 - Jul 2016
Contributions:126 commits, 1 push in 2 years 8 months
ulrich-hansen/M2WAT
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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