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Veteran I/O, Storage, Distributed Systems and Database Engineer. Retired after 40 years continuous work in Software R&D and Engineering. Currently on long-term sabbatical pursuing personal growth, physical fitness, intellectual and artistic enrichment.Diverse skills in the depths of OS-level and clustered/distributed/threaded data server software including: file system and storage layer internals, open source integration, metadata, multi-threaded data pipelines including multiple-pass algorithms , parallel cloud storage I/O, distributed/partitioned data, BIG data, columnar data, directory and index algorithm/structural design and programming, compression and encryption, multi-tenancy, server admin APIs, logging, threading, MPP distributed programming, failover, concurrency, authentication, access control, process and memory management, compiler machine code generation, etc. Extensive work in Assembly, C language, and Java.Excellent technical writer and conceptual diagrammer directly involved in the Patent filing and prosecution process as primary inventor on several disclosures related to distributed data access and security. Autodidactic interested in mathematics, security, machine architectures, and scalability problems. ——Retired from SAS R&D with specialties in research, design, programming and testing of systems infrastructure for data engineering, storage and security. Founding member of the SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) core R&D team. CAS is the in-memory analytics engine powering the SAS Viya platform. Close collaboration with SAS R&D, field teams, and partners to innovate new distributed data engineering capabilities for SAS Viya/CAS.My 36-year R&D career at SAS spanned the systems software stack, including: - inventing an advanced dynamic multi-device I/O driver- research, design and extensive development of distributed data engineering systems, with US and International Patents for much of this work.- a scalable generalized authorization system within the SAS Metadata Server with related authorization services surfaced in the SAS Java mid-tier - design and programming for multiple distributed data subsystems within the SAS Viya core engine, including innovative open source integration. - partnership R&D collaboration with SingleStore database engineers. Deep level integration of analytics and database technology within a high-performance Kubernetes-based cluster.Long-time student of jazz and classical guitar.German Shepherd Dog owner/lover.

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