Andrew Gaul
Systems programmer interested in entrepreneurship and technical leadership
opportunities in San Francisco and Tokyo.
Background includes work in distributed computing, storage, and free
software.
Work experience
Google Japan,
Senior Software Engineer (2019 - present)
- Managed a team of seven to improve page experiences across the web ecosystem
- Technical lead for a Chrome UKM-based mobile classifier and search ranking signal
- Evaluated a search ranking signal to demote pages with excessive visual clutter and advertisements
- Received a Search tech impact award for helping reduce page load latency by 1,000 years per quarter
- Transitioned a team of five to Discover ranking to make feed more responsive to user actions
- Improved Apache jclouds Google Cloud integration and gcsfuse POSIX compatibility
- Created a hybrid object store for managing data spanning
different clouds and geographies
- Implemented protocol translator comprised of an S3 frontend and an enhanced
Apache jclouds backend
- Led outbound efforts including pitching to investors, sourcing customers,
and presenting at conferences
Maginatics,
Staff Engineer (2013 - 2014),
Senior Engineer (2011 - 2013)
- Founding engineer for
MagFS
1.0-2.6, a cloud-based file system which became
EMC
CloudBoost
- Lead developer of object data storage, SQL metadata,
deduplication, garbage collection, and snapshots
- Fixed MySQL concurrency and space-efficiency issues
and contributed to upstream projects
- Worked with the Apache jclouds community to improve compatibility across 15
different object stores
- Mentored engineers, supervised contractors, and interacted
with customers, investors, and partners
Riverbed Technology,
Member of Technical Staff (2006 - 2011)
- File system engineer for
Atlas 1.0,
a deduplicating storage appliance which became
NetApp
AltaVault
- Implemented algorithms and data
structures for efficient indexing and storage of compressed data
- Improved performance and space efficiency of data deduplication, garbage
collection, and snapshots
- Provided 2-10x speedups
via algorithmic improvements, assembly-level optimizations, and
tuning
- Storage engineer for
SteelFusion
1.0, a virtualized, WAN-optimized iSCSI storage appliance
- Contributed to core indexing structures, transactional persistence
of data, and overall performance
- Established dogfood setup, deployed initial
customer installs, and evangelized failure-injection testing
Free software
- Apache jclouds
committer,
PMC member (2013 - present), and
Vice President (2016 - 2017, 2021 - present)
- implemented the Backblaze B2 API and mentored Google Summer of Code students (2014, 2017)
- s3fs committer
(2019 - present) - accelerated readdir, rename, and write performance by 2-5x,
addressed data loss issues, and improved POSIX compatibility,
S3 interoperability, testing, and documentation
- Author of
Chaos HTTP
Proxy,
Java httpbin,
JDBC lint,
Modernizer Maven Plugin,
S3Proxy,
and x86lint
- Contributed to
compy,
Firefox,
gcsfuse,
goofys,
innodb_ruby,
OpenSSH,
s3-tests,
Thrift,
and more
- Speaker at
ApacheCon,
Linux.conf.au,
Ohio LinuxFest,
and Open Source Summit
Education