Dean Hildebrand

Greater Seattle Area United States

Principal Research Staff Member, Senior Storage Systems Architect, Manager of Cloud Storage Software at IBM Research

Technology / Software / Internet

I have over 15 years of experience innovating, designing, and building scalable file systems and object stores. As a manager, architect and developer of GPFS (IBM Spectrum Scale) for the past 9 years, I have in-depth knowledge on how to architect, build, deploy and maintain the most scalable file system in the world. I am an expert in architecting distributed and parallel file systems to achieve unparalleled levels of performance and scalability. I have authored 31 scientific publications, submitted over 50 patents, and chaired and sat on the program committee of dozens of conferences, including FAST, Supercomputing, HPDC, MSST, and MASCOTS. - 10 years of industrial research/architec...