Bruce Mcfarland

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• What is Bruce Mcfarland's address?

  Bruce Mcfarland is located at
  353 Plateau Avenue, Santa Cruz, United States

• What is Bruce Mcfarland's job title?

  Bruce Mcfarland is a
  SUMMARY • Experienced Storage Engineer - FW/SW Design, Public Cloud SW, Applications Engineering, Performance Analysis, DevOps, and SQA/Test. • Certified SAFe 4 Practitioner Public Cloud • SW development using Open Source SDKs to provide authentication, Get/Put/List/Delete of database objects in cloud storage. • MS Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS S3 C++ SDKs • Public Cloud Authentication SW development Storage Clusters • Ceph deployment, debug, and performance analysis in multiple HW architectures for POC. • Ceph customer onsite deployment, training, debug support for customer POC. • Cluster Orchestration/Monitoring: Salt Stack, Nagios, Puppet, Graphite, custom Bash deployment scripts. • Linux HA Linux-ZFS POC using DRBD device mirroring with Pacemaker/corosync GlusterFS evaluation and Performance Analysis. • OpenStack Summit Demo’s (Vancover/Tokyo) KVM hypervisor VM images resident to RBD’s mapped to a micro server based Ceph cluster using both filestore XFS and keyvaluestore OpenKinetic backends. Performance Analysis • Performance Analysis of emerging Storage Systems Ceph, GlusterFS, memcached. • Benchmarking micro level: FIO, VDBench; File Systems: IOZone, FileBench; Application: TPC-H, LoginVSI; NoSQL/KeyValue: Memtier; Object Storage: COSBench CI/CD • Jenkins release pipelines; GitHub source management; Artifactory packaging; Jira Defect Tracking Research • Open Stack understanding from lab setups including use of Mirantis Fuel. • Memcached POC employing PCIe Cache Accelerator for expanded cache investigation Applications Engineering • Escalation management, Training, Technical Deep Dives • Onsite Storage Cluster deployment, debug, monitoring • Experienced working with cross functional teams (HW,SW,QA,FAE/Sales) to resolve customer issues, suggest improvements, fix bugs, etc.– reproduction of customer issues in local lab, confirmation of bug reports, providing detailed problem information to development teams • Application Note creation • International onsite customer support General • Enterprise Linux Distros: SLES, RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu • Hypervisors: KVM – virtsh, virt-manager, qemu; Xen • C/C++, Assembly, Shell Scripting - bash, Python, and Perl/Tcl • Git, Subversion, Perforce, Clear Case, CVS, PVCS • Solaris, MS Windows, Cisco IOS, ThreadX, MQX, and QNX Zoox

• What industry does Bruce Mcfarland currently work in?

  Bruce Mcfarland currently works in the
  Zoox

• What is Bruce Mcfarland's area of expertise?

  Bruce Mcfarland specializes in
  SUMMARY • Experienced Storage Engineer - FW/SW Design, Public Cloud SW, Applications Engineering, Performance Analysis, DevOps, and SQA/Test. • Certified SAFe 4 Practitioner Public Cloud • SW development using Open Source SDKs to provide authentication, Get/Put/List/Delete of database objects in cloud storage. • MS Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS S3 C++ SDKs • Public Cloud Authentication SW development Storage Clusters • Ceph deployment, debug, and performance analysis in multiple HW architectures for POC. • Ceph customer onsite deployment, training, debug support for customer POC. • Cluster Orchestration/Monitoring: Salt Stack, Nagios, Puppet, Graphite, custom Bash deployment scripts. • Linux HA Linux-ZFS POC using DRBD device mirroring with Pacemaker/corosync GlusterFS evaluation and Performance Analysis. • OpenStack Summit Demo’s (Vancover/Tokyo) KVM hypervisor VM images resident to RBD’s mapped to a micro server based Ceph cluster using both filestore XFS and keyvaluestore OpenKinetic backends. Performance Analysis • Performance Analysis of emerging Storage Systems Ceph, GlusterFS, memcached. • Benchmarking micro level: FIO, VDBench; File Systems: IOZone, FileBench; Application: TPC-H, LoginVSI; NoSQL/KeyValue: Memtier; Object Storage: COSBench CI/CD • Jenkins release pipelines; GitHub source management; Artifactory packaging; Jira Defect Tracking Research • Open Stack understanding from lab setups including use of Mirantis Fuel. • Memcached POC employing PCIe Cache Accelerator for expanded cache investigation Applications Engineering • Escalation management, Training, Technical Deep Dives • Onsite Storage Cluster deployment, debug, monitoring • Experienced working with cross functional teams (HW,SW,QA,FAE/Sales) to resolve customer issues, suggest improvements, fix bugs, etc.– reproduction of customer issues in local lab, confirmation of bug reports, providing detailed problem information to development teams • Application Note creation • International onsite customer support General • Enterprise Linux Distros: SLES, RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu • Hypervisors: KVM – virtsh, virt-manager, qemu; Xen • C/C++, Assembly, Shell Scripting - bash, Python, and Perl/Tcl • Git, Subversion, Perforce, Clear Case, CVS, PVCS • Solaris, MS Windows, Cisco IOS, ThreadX, MQX, and QNX

• Which languages does Bruce Mcfarland speak? 

  Bruce Mcfarland speaks the following languages:
  No languages available.

• Which industries has Bruce Mcfarland previously worked in?   

  Bruce Mcfarland has prior experience in the following industries:
  Teradata , Flextronics , Toshiba America Electronic Components , Oracle , Pmc Sierra , Micron Technoloby , Iomega , Guava Technologies , Cisco Systems , Seagate Technology , Maxtor , Seagate Technology

• What is Bruce Mcfarland’s work experience?  

  Bruce Mcfarland has the following professional experience:
  Zoox , Teradata , Flextronics , Toshiba America Electronic Components , Oracle , Pmc Sierra , Micron Technoloby , Iomega , Guava Technologies , Cisco Systems , Seagate Technology , Maxtor , Seagate Technology .

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• What are Bruce Mcfarland’s work email addresses?  

  Bruce Mcfarland’s work email addresses are
  [email protected] .

• What company does Bruce Mcfarland work for?  

  Bruce Mcfarland works at
  Zoox