Skills
Stack, craft, and field skills
Lustre and parallel storage sit at the center. Everything else supports making large systems trustworthy under real load.
Storage & HPC
The core craft — parallel filesystems and AI-scale data paths.
Lustre / ExascalerParallel & distributed filesystemsHPC / AI storage architecturePerformance troubleshootingCapacity & lifecycle planningPrometheus / observability for storage
Systems & Linux
30+ years living in the kernel-adjacent trenches.
Linux internals & opsKernel / client debuggingNetworking & RDMA awarenessAutomation & config managementContainers & bare metalOpen source advocacy
Customer & Field
Strategic accounts don't run on slides alone.
Technical account managementArchitecture design reviewsEscalation ownershipExecutive-ready technical narrativeCross-team coordination
Security (hobby, serious)
Breaking things responsibly to understand them better.
Vulnerability researchAuth / trust boundary analysisMSP platform securityResponsible disclosurePoC tooling
Languages & tooling
RustGoC#PythonBashLuaGitMCP