Sam Zaydel
Engineer at RackTop Systems
Moss Beach, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSam Zaydel is an experienced infrastructure and operations engineer with 16 years designing, tuning, and supporting large-scale datacenter and distributed storage systems. He has led migrations, M&A integrations, DR solutions and standardization efforts while favoring hands-on operational roles that keep him close to customers and system performance. A long-time ZFS and open-storage specialist, Sam has consulted on SAN, flash tiering, and virtualization projects and built resilient storage architectures for cloud and on-prem environments. He contributes system-level fixes to prominent projects like fio, demonstrating deep low-level I/O and Solaris expertise that complements his platform and sustaining engineering work. Comfortable both managing projects and writing the automation and documentation that makes systems repeatable, he routinely applies Python and configuration-management tools to operationalize solutions. Based in Moss Beach, CA, he is now aiming to bring his operational instincts and storage background to data science problems where data plumbing and rigorous performance matter.
16 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
San Francisco State UniversityAAS, Computer Science, AAS, Computer Science at Heald CollegeAAS, Computer Science, AAS, Computer Science at City College of San FranciscoHigh, Air Conditioning and Power Distribution, High, Air Conditioning and Power Distribution at John A O'Connell Technical High School
English, Russian
Github Skills (6)
c1710
solaris10
c1110
system-programming9
error-handling8
performance-optimization7
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
axboe/fio
Jun 2015 - Sep 2018
Flexible I/O Tester
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 8 commits, 9 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the fio project, a flexible I/O tester. Their work included addressing potential integer size issues, merging code changes, and improving error handling related to directIO support on Solaris. They also fixed issues specific to the Solaris operating system, such as clock setaffinity errors and incompatible pointer type warnings, indicating a focus on system-level optimization.
testingflexible
szaydel/XKCD-password-generator
Apr 2018 - Dec 2020
Generate passwords with high entropy
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
passwordsentropypassword-generatorsecuritypassword-manager
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