Summary
Violet Rodriguez is a Software Architect with a decade of experience designing and shipping cloud storage infrastructure that now manages multiple petabytes in production. She has deep expertise across file and block storage (NFS, iSCSI, QCOW2-backed volumes), snapshots, replication and orchestration from hands-on engineering to leading teams and product architecture at IBM and VAST Data. Her background in systems administration and customer support gives her a practical, supportable mindset—she routinely translates support and customer feedback into resilient, usable designs. Currently focused on next-generation networking and software-defined networking with SmartNIC-based virtualized network functions, she blends low-level systems knowledge with strategic product decisions. Based in Seattle, Violet is an avid technology hobbyist who experiments in a home lab, which keeps her ahead of emerging infrastructure trends.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Self-taught
English, Hebrew