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Dave Kilian
https://www.davekilian.com
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Senior engineer experienced in architecting for low latency at scale in C and C++. Interested in foundational software like databases, distributed storage, file systems, multithreading, operating systems and game engines. Skilled technical writer and in-person presenter with a knack for explaining difficult technical concepts. Proud dad of three little wild men. Graduated from Brown University in 2013. Lifetime learner. Licensed high school teacher in Washington state.
Work Experience
Senior Member of Technical Staff, Qumulo, 2023-Present- Working on next-generation cloud file storage
- Spearheaded, co-architected and co-developed proof-of-concept next-generation Azure virtual machine disk storage, capable of serving over 1 million IOPS per server blade with half-millisecond latency.
- Developed and presented architecture deep-dive talk for new hires. Grew organically from notes to headliner of new all-day "boot camp" event, given at our Redmond, Shanghai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru offices, and recorded for posterity.
- Made significant contributions to a project optimizing network flow using InfiniBand RDMA
- Lead a ground-up rebuild of key components for Window's 'Reset this PC' recovery feature, which dramatically reduced failure rate
- Traveled overseas to work with PC manufactuers on customizing recovery for their devices
- Assisted graduate- and undergraduate-level courses in graphics, operating systems, and cybersecurity
- As regular TA, developed course materials, graded assignments, ran coding labs and held office hours
- As head TA, hired and managed teams of undergrad TAs, organized courses, developed course content
- US 9,519,631: Semantic Diff and Automerge, based on work I did during a 2011 internship at Microsoft
Technology Experience
Most recently: C/C++, Windows Driver Model, InfiniBand RDMA, B-Trees and Log-Structured Merge. These are all still top of mind.
In the past: OpenGL, Qt, Python, Java, Linux shells, C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, SQL. I have used these for nontrivial projects in the past, but it's been a while.
Education
I graduated from Brown University in 2013 with a B.S. in Computer Science, with a 3.8 GPA. Relevant coursework:
- Software System Design
- Computer Networks
- Introduction to Multiprocessor Synchronization
- 3D Game Engines
- Design and Analysis of Algorithms
- Introduction to Computational Linguistics
- Operating Systems
- Operating Systems Implementation Lab
- Models of Computation
- Interactive Computer Graphics (Graduate-level)
- Introduction to Computer Systems Security
- Introduction to Android Game Development
- Introduction to Computer Graphics
- Introduction to Computer Systems
- The Matrix in Computer Science (Linear Algebra)
- Introduction to Software Engineering
- Discrete Structures and Probability
The most recent version of this document is available at http://www.davekilian.com/resume.html.