Dean Hildebrand



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I am a Technical Director in the Office of the CTO (OCTO) at Google and have over 15 years of experience innovating, designing, and building scalable storage systems. I have authored over 100 scientific publications and patents and chaired and sat on the program committee of dozens of conferences, including FAST, Supercomputing, HPDC, and ATC.

10 years of industrial research/architect experience on distributed storage systems
20 years of software development experience
PhD – Computer Science, University of Michigan
Proven senior software architect and developer
Manager and leader of software development teams
Invented, designed, developed and deployed numerous storage software features and products
15+ years experience with distributed storage systems
Worked with dozens of customers on designing and architecting first of a kind storage infrastructures