Hi!
My name is Konstantinos "Kostadis" Roussos.
Ever since I could remember I wanted to be an investment banker. When I went to Brown University in 1992 I was rabidly focused on acquiring the coursework, extracurricular activities and experiences necessary to work on Wall Street.
But in 1994 I took a computer science course by accident and all of a sudden I was hooked.
At Brown I fell in love with they study and design of computer systems. And when SGI offered me a job in the kernel group to work on massively parallel computers, I jumped at the opportunity. For three years I worked on building a multi-service scheduler as a tiny part of a team of system giants. The funniest moment while at SGI was, when as a kid straight out of school, I sent an email to the kernel group during the Origin 2000 bring up that contained the line:
We have isolated the problem to the idle loop.
SGI was a fun experience but in many ways it was the antithesis of NetApp. Where NetApp is focused on customer value, SGI was focused on technology for technology's sake.
I finally left SGI in 1999 to join NetApp. My first job inside of NetApp was as part of the NetCache organization. And within the NetCache organization, my first job was to work on our streaming media caching appliance. Ironically enough, I spent two years developing and then optimizing a highly scalable packet scheduling infrastructure.
In 2003 I joined our file-services caching team and some of the work I did ended up in our file caching product. The only thing of note I accomplished was to delete a TODO that Dave Hitz had left behind in a file in 1993.
But in 2004, by sheer coincidence, I joined the manageability group at NetApp. At the time the group was 15 developers and 8 QA engineers and was responsible for FilerView, system administration, and the product formerly known as DFM.
From an individual contributor delivering the original Performance Advisor product, I became one of several architects for the entire manageability area.
Now I spend my time thinking about technology trends and how customer problems create opportunities for software engineers to improve the way businesses do their business by leveraging those trends.
You can always reach me at kostadis@netapp.com
