father of four; PhD; engineering leader, do-er, advisor in massachusetts
practitioner of innovation & inclusion; german in US; he/him
my heart is in the work
In recent years, sustainability has become nagging concern in the open source ecosystem. With the recent incorporation of the Green Software Foundation, we are working to build more efficient software that lets you do more while reducing the use of carbon and electricity. The flip side is being concerned with the hardware itself. After all, if you’re building energy efficient software it’s reasonable to believe that hardware should also be a factor. Does it make sense to build efficient green software for an automobile that is mechanically inefficient? Sustainability should happen all the way down - and that is where the circular economy comes in. Through re-use and re-certification of IT components, we can build sustainable platforms that maximizes efficiency while simultaneously lowering our carbon footprint beyond what just software can do. At a time where we are concerned about the limited supply of rare earth metals and aggressive demand for more computational power - this conversation should happen now. So, let’s talk about sustainability all the way down and what that means for the software industry and sustainability programs around the world.
Modernizing Data Centers | Webinar | March 2021 |
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Open Uncomplicated | online webinar | June 2020 |
From Servers to Serverless | OCP Virtual Summit | May 2020 |
Open Uncomplicated | OCP Virtual Summit | May 2020 |
Operationalizing a Global Circular IT Hardware Industry | IFX 2019 - Celebrating the Craft & Culture of Infrastructure | December 2019 |
scaling tech stacks, scaling tech teams | Open Source Summit North America | August 2019 |
Collaboration Is The Better Way | FOSDEM | February 2019 |
Everyday Opportunities for Inclusion and Collaboration | Open Source Summit Europe | October 2017 |
Scalable Storage With Ethernet Disk Drives - Kinetic On the Move | LinuxCon + ContainerCon North America 2016 | August 2016 |
Coding (an intro for K to 3rd graders) | Scituate Science Spectacular | November 2015 |
Kinetic Open Storage Project - Project Overview | Storage Developer Conference (SDC) | September 2015 |
When Bad Things Happen To Good Disks - aka Disks Don’t Have File Descriptors | LinuxCon + CloudOpen + ContainerCon North America 2015 | August 2015 |
Inside the EMC ECS Appliance | ECS Appliance Overview | February 2015 |
Cloud Computing & Storage - More than a File System in the Sky | Guest Lecture - Storage Systems Class | October 2012 |
Efficient & Convenient - How To Build Big Storage As A Cloud | MSST Conference | April 2012 |
The Death of Disk - Panel Session | HEC FSIO Workshop | August 2011 |
Creative Engineering | Parallel Data Lab Annual Retreat | October 2010 |
OSD-2 and XAM | Intelligent Storage Workshop | May 2007 |
SCSI vs. ATA - More than an interface | 2nd Conference on File and Storage Technology (FAST) | April 2003 |
Data Mining on an OLTP System (Nearly) For Free | ACM SIGMOD Int’l Conf on Mgmt of Data | May 2000 |
Active Disks - Remote Execution in Network-Attached Storage | Thesis Defense - Carnegie Mellon ECE | November 1999 |
Active Disks - A Case for Remote Execution in Network-Attached Storage | Parallel Data Lab Annual Retreat | November 1997 |