Patrick Andrew
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Systems Developer
Systems Developer
Senior Software Engineer for DELL Technologies. BS in Computer Science. Entrepener, hands on. C/C++/Go/Python
Containers, Web Stack, Deployment, CI/CD
English
Pacific Time (US & Canada) (-07:00)
Joined September 2017
EXPERTISE
10 years experience | 1 endorsement
Trained engineer through Computer Science degree. 7 years at a #1 Network Attach Storage System company. Developed high performance pro...
Trained engineer through Computer Science degree. 7 years at a #1 Network Attach Storage System company. Developed high performance protocol stack and kernel modules mainly in C.
7 years experience
Lots of experience working with c-python shims. Some work doing patching/porting of python 2.6 to python 2.7+. Lots of custom scripts ...
Lots of experience working with c-python shims. Some work doing patching/porting of python 2.6 to python 2.7+. Lots of custom scripts for NAS product as well as test scripts and utilities to work with product. Including develeopment on Open Source SMB2 PIKE.
4 years experience
Been working on API consumption tools in GOLANG for a while now.
Been working on API consumption tools in GOLANG for a while now.
3 years experience
Back when PHP5 was infantile, I was developing web applications and scripts in PHP4 for customers and personal projects. Mainly focused ...
Back when PHP5 was infantile, I was developing web applications and scripts in PHP4 for customers and personal projects. Mainly focused around vBulletin.
6 years experience
1 year experience
10 years experience
REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS
(3 reviews)
Erik
September 2017
Patrick is very smart and is willing to help you till he delivers the best result.
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EMPLOYMENTS
Software Engineer, Storage Team
Joyent (Samsung)
2020-09-01-2022-01-01
- Worked on and developed new storage features for MinIO (Golang) for Samsung's enterprise store cloud which mirrored the feat...
- Worked on and developed new storage features for MinIO (Golang) for Samsung's enterprise store cloud which mirrored the features found in Amazon S3.
- Was responsible for fixing bugs, understanding and coaching fellow team members on the ins and outs of the MinIO and Samsung’s custom code/features.
Amazon S3
Coaching
FIX
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Amazon S3
Coaching
FIX
Golang testing
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Software, Senior Engineer, Network Protocols
DELL
2017-09-01-2019-09-01
- Improved OneFS SmartConnect performance 100x by designing and implementing a nonblocking event driver architecture.
- Was g...
- Improved OneFS SmartConnect performance 100x by designing and implementing a nonblocking event driver architecture.
- Was granted two patents for distributed failover solutions identified OneFS SmartConnect performance and reliability improvements.
- Solved customer escalations by tackling complex event handling issues in the File System Driver (freebsd kernel & userspace).
- Helped leadership team gain insight into software quality gap by contributing to quality GAP analysis deep dive, analyzing product defects and security concerns.
- Improved product support engineers' product knowledge by contributing to routine field defect triages and assisted in fixing in-field product issues.
- Improved team members' code by performing routine Code Reviews across the entire protocols organization.
FreeBSD
Event-Driven Architecture
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FreeBSD
Event-Driven Architecture
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Senior Software Engineer, Network Protocols
DELL EMC
2013-09-01-2017-09-01
- Fixed and improved File System Driver asynchronous issues by identifying pre-release and in-field defects.
- Realized NFS4....
- Fixed and improved File System Driver asynchronous issues by identifying pre-release and in-field defects.
- Realized NFS4.1 and SMB3 continuous availability (CA) product additions by following SDLC, gathering technical requirements, writing problem statements & analysis, designing product additions to File System Driver, and developing Technical Specification documents.
- Supported Continuous Availability protocol development by implementing changes identified in File System Driver and FreeBSD kernel distributed locking system.
- Increased protocol client connection capacity by developing the first iteration of a non-blocking, asynchronous File System Driver leveraging custom asynchronous Read/Write system calls.
- Improved SMB test coverage by contributing to an SMB protocol test framework.
- Improved NFS performance and transition to internal software framework by making necessary changes to the OneFS File System Driver.
FreeBSD
SDLC
Asynchronous Programming
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FreeBSD
SDLC
Asynchronous Programming
File systems
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