Summary
Grant Wallace is a systems software engineer with eight years of professional experience building high-performance storage, distributed, and research computing systems across startups, academia, and enterprise. He has driven R&D and productization of deduplication, delta compression, and flash-caching innovations at Data Domain/Dell EMC and later built scalable gene-expression query engines and real-time fMRI pipelines at Princeton, earning a Fierce Innovation Award. Holder of 50 U.S. patents, he combines deep systems-level programming and algorithmic skill with practical project leadership to deliver production-ready infrastructure. Equally comfortable in C++ and Python, he specializes in storage systems, device drivers, file and display systems, and cloud-native services, often translating research prototypes into clinical and enterprise deployments. A detail that surprises colleagues: his work spans both low-level compression engine optimizations and researcher-facing orchestration hubs that simplify deploying neuroimaging experiments.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Physics and Mathematics minor, B.S. Physics and Mathematics minor at Humboldt State University
M.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at Rutgers University