Aaron Passey

5402 17th Ave. SW
Seattle, WA 98106
aaronp@ugcs.caltech.edu
home phone: (206) 768-1057
Last updated: 11/05/05

Experience
Chief Architect - Isilon Systems.
Seattle, WA May 2002-present
The leader in clustered storage
  • Responsible for the technical direction of Isilon's products
  • Led a truely exceptional team of architects
  • Participant in the design of almost every aspect of Isilon's products
  • Helped decide which features to implement for maximum impact to the market
  • Represented engineering at many customer visits and trade shows
  • Filed five patents
  • Shipped 5 major versions of the product and many more minor versions to great success in the marketplace
  • Continued to design, write, and debug code
Software Development Lead - Isilon Systems.
Seattle, WA August 2001-May 2002
A company specializing in distributed storage for streaming media
  • Led the subsystems team which was responsible for global locking, global transactions, group management, custom RPC layer, disk cache, networking, drivers, and more.
  • Participanted in the technical due diligence for the round B funding.
  • Filed two patents
Senior Software Development Engineer - Isilon Systems.
Seattle, WA June 2001-August 2001
A company specializing in distributed storage for streaming media
  • Wrote a distributed lock manager
  • Wrote a distributed journalling subsystem
Operating System Engineer - Cray, Inc.
Seattle, WA August 1999-May 2001
The industry leader in super computing
  • Wrote/fixed Linux kernel drivers
  • Lead of IO team for MTA IO
  • Wrote low level IO software in the kernel
Design Engineer - Gordian.
Santa Ana Heights, CA August 1997-August 1999
A Technical Product Development Company
  • Served as software lead for the Jukebox project
  • Developed a robot controller for a CDROM jukebox under Linux
  • Developed control algorithms for a stepper motor controller
  • Developed low-level libraries for the TI F240 DSP
Education
California Institute of Technology - Class of 1997
A leading school in pure and applied science
Bothell High School - Class of 1993
Skills
BSD Internals, Filesystem Internals, Distributed Systems, Embedded systems, Linux internals, Java, C, C++, UNIX, Computer Networking.
References available upon request

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