Andy Lerner Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, Us

Multiple roles as MapR was integrated into HPE and evolved into Ezmeral Data Fabric (EDF) software distributed storage solution for analytics and ML/DL/AI.Global Pre-sales Solution Architect. As the only remaining customer and partner facing engineer at acquisition, I provided technical expertise to HPE sales reps on every MapR deal globally and have continued supporting sales globally.* Evangelized and promoted EDF internally in HPE and to the broader HPE reseller community.* Created and delivered recorded HPE TekTalks covering technical trade-offs including architectural and sizing considerations.* Developed and presented architectural and sizing designs for sales opportunities.* Documented architectures in both white papers and Powerpoint presentations.Engineering/Customer Solution Architect. In this role, I reported to the VP of Product and VP of Engineering to address customer escalations that would have otherwise pulled development engineers away from high priority development projects.* Met with customers to understand issues and requirements.* Proposed and validated product changes for data tiering, multi-datacenter configurations for disaster recovery, small cluster resiliency.* Created and delivered white papers and presentations to customers describing product changes and how the product would meet the customer need.* Provided architectural guidance to HPE teams providing EDF as a service.

Houston, Texas, Us

Managed technical alliances and provided training and technical assistance to partner engineers creating joint solutions including:• Query federation, ETL , and distributed execution engine products.• Server vendor reference architectures.• MapR storage infrastructure solution with Cisco to implement SAP HANA Appliance and Tailored Datacenter Integration (TDI) solution.Scripted and configured prototypes, tools and tests including:• Automated MapR Docker environment to install, configure and start up to 20 MapR nodes on a single server or cloud instance, with Kerberos KDC, MySQL, Web Proxy, and yum repository containers as required for MapR clusters.• AWS CFT to start up the MapR Docker environment.• Full duplex simultaneous looped iperf test to validate cluster network performance and identify switch backplane and dual port network card limitations.• MapR S3 tiering tests for object storage vendors to certify with MapR Object Tiering.• Prototype multi-process MapR file server solution to increase single node I/O performance from 2GB/s to 16GB/s, exercising NVMe drives and 100GbE networks.Provided in-depth technical expertise for sales including:• Designed tiered filesystem architecture using MapR topologies and volume placement for multi-tenant database environment requiring sub millisecond latency.• Ran POC functionality and performance tests.• Presented to customers who needed partner related content or deeper technical content than available from the field sales team.• Created and delivered technical webinars for MapR global sales engineering team.Wrote papers and blogs including:• Architecture survey paper describing bare metal, Docker, and Kubernetes architectures for accessing GPU training data from MapR filesystem. • Configure and run TensorFlow benchmark on NVIDIA GPUs reading data from MapR file system.• Create MapR client container from NVIDIA GPU cloud container• Technical portions of MapR reference architectures with server vendors.

Houston, Texas, Us

Design and lead development of HP Cloudera Hadoop Appliance. • Manage development and integration work of several engineers and lead weekly engineering meeting to keep HP AppSystem for Apache Hadoop project on track.• Manage engineering relationship with Cloudera for HP and lead weekly engineering meeting with Cloudera.• Developed Hadoop node cloning and deployment mechanism using HP Cluster Management Utility (CMU). Wrote python scripts to automate Hadoop cluster deployment using CM4 REST API.• Designed, configured, ordered, deployed, upgraded, and managed servers, switches, and software for CDH Hadoop clusters used by solution development team. "Go to" team resource for all systems.• Integrated ganglia hadoop metrics for display by HP CMU increasing differentiation of HP Hadoop solution.• Wrote design document describing HW and SW solution components and interactions.

Houston, Texas, Us

Created cloud solutions, ported software, tuned performance, resolved compiler issues, and managed engineering relationships to ensure availability, and performance, of ISV software on HP platforms.• Set up and configured BladeSystems, VLANs, SAN storage and zoning to implement HP CloudMatrix solution.• Developed HP CloudMatrix map including HPIO template, HPOO workflow, shell and python scripts to deploy Oracle Retail with WebLogic as a cloud service. Solution used as a model for other cloud maps.• Using HP Caliper, identified Oracle Retail mutex contention issue in C++ standard library. Worked with C++ lab team to develop workaround resulting in 3x performance increase.• Created scripts to automate execution of benchmark processes and collection of results and HP Performance Agent data on both HP-UX and Linux. Analyzed and published results.• Wrote sales collateral including performance reports and migration cookbooks, and consulted with sales teams on effective presentation of benchmark results to win sales. Performance reports were used in winning several large deals.• Designed and implemented development environment using HP Integrity Virtual Machines to reduce hardware cost and increase flexibility and availability for ongoing development and maintenance.

Houston, Texas, Us

Supported partner ISVs in developing software for HP-UX systems and differentiating solutions on HP servers.• Presented HP hardware and software roadmaps to partners.• Researched and resolved HP-UX, C/C++, java issues encountered by partner developers.• Prototyped solutions using HP and partner software.