Summary

Storage architect at Principal / SMTS level, specializing in disaggregated storage for HPC, HFT, and AI inference.

Experience

YukonSYStems R&D – Founder / Architect

501(c)(3) nonprofit. Architecture iterated since ~2010-2012.

• Founder and architect of “Disaggregated High-Performance Storage for HPC, HFT, Inference.”
• Production platform: >100 PB raw across a few hundred nodes, with 100-400GbE DPU-accelerated networking.
• Fully open source under CDDL, with OpenZFS at the core.

Independent Consulting – 2026

• Infrastructure and storage architecture consulting.
• Rate: $250-500/hr.

Xsight Labs – 2026

• Evaluated the E1 DPU and X2 switch pre-release.
• Asked by two SVPs to write the Distinguished Architect job specification.

Cerebras Systems – SMTS Storage Architect, 2025 to Jan 2, 2026

• Hired as the first and only SMTS Storage Architect.
• Owned storage architecture components for the CS-3 to CS-4 design roadmap.

Fastly – Principal Systems Architect, 7 years

• The company’s only Principal Systems Architect.
• Sole architect of Fastly’s DNS control plane migration: split-horizon anycast with multi-provider zone syncing and high availability throughout.
• Built the Infrastructure Hardware Research Lab and the OSI layer 1-6 infrastructure outlay, including PTP/NTP automation.
• Built the multi-million-dollar Performance Test Platform and a 4-person Performance Engineering team, under the VP Engineering org.

Jump Trading, Chicago

• CDN storage engineering for HFT/HPC, using CERN’s CVMFS and Varnish.

Technologies

• Storage and filesystems: OpenZFS, S3 and NFS-RDMA storage services, multi-petabyte scale-out design
• Operating systems: FreeBSD
• Networking and data path: NVMe-oF / RDMA (RoCE, DCQCN), DPUs (NVIDIA BlueField-2/3, Pensando, Xsight E1), SPDK, HA-Proxy, Intel QAT
• CDN: CVMFS, Varnish

Speaking

• OpenZFS Summit, Oct 27, 2026 (remote).