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Eva Winterschön is a systems architect specializing in cache-centric storage, hybrid-cloud virtualization, and bare-metal clustering. Her quarter century duration career has spanned multiple engineering specializations, culminating in sustained focus with building high-performance systems and distributed storage architectures.
The Duration
2023 - Present: Eva co-founded an agentic LLM startup with her husband, focusing primarily on HPC and HFT workloads. Concurrently, she actively contributes to OSS communities involving FreeBSD and OpenZFS. In her reflective time, she authors a website (it's this one!) for engineering topics, with reflections on life events, as well as insights on philosophy and cognitive neuroscience.
2025 - 2026: Eva focused her cognitive output on the design and implementation of advanced storage architectures at Cerebras Systems, best known for creating the world's most advanced Ai Computational Clusters and Supercomputers. Building on experience with FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, and Big Iron UNIXs going back to 1999, decades of dedication to engineering artforms influenced her cognitive endurance amidst the rising tides by which Ai had come to define.
Before the Singularity
Previously, she served as Principal Architect at Fastly CDN for a seven year tenure, building performance-engineering and hardware research labs which supported one of the world’s largest web-caching infrastructures, crucial to global internet traffic. Over past decades there have been many datacenters, air-gapped networks, database clusters, long range wireless back-haul, rainforest wifi networking and nearly everything in-between.
All of the Things to Love
Ideally, the list of loves is longer than those of disfavor, and generally so with the ways in which this nor-endless supply of time may be accounted and allocated towards. From the thigh burning arts of Telemark and Backcountry Skiing, Free Diving in the tropics, Road Cycling, Long Range Marksmanship, to Wilderness Trekking, the list of loves is one of endurance.
Consuming the Written Word
Eva's forever fondness for reading is typified on three primary genres.
- Non-Fiction: biographies and autobiographies of adventure and personal conquests during explorations in High Altitude Mountaineering, along with the terrifyingly real and enduringly impressive forays from 19/20th century Arctic and Antarctic explorations.
- Hard Science Fiction: cyberpunk, space marines, synthetic human engineering, dystopian futures, and tales of sentience instantiation.
- Historical Romance: an enduring propensity and love for mid-20th century novels, set to the backdrop of decades surrounding "The Great War" and World War II and everything in-between: tales of love which cannot be, of sacrifice, honor, often tragedy.
Expressions via Externalization
Driven to comprehend the expansiveness of this often tumultuous sensory world, she has formerly channeled expressiveness into short stories, discretely ghost-authored research papers, and penned poetry now archived into the rarest of recollections. Photography endures as her primary discipline: from 35 mm film to digital capture, each image serving as a disciplined study in autobiographical memory.