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He was at AWS for 5 years from 2015 to 2020. It seems unlikely that he wrote the filesystem that powers s3. Improved, absolutely. His partner was a manager, no
by Kluggy 3y ago
He was at AWS for 5 years from 2015 to 2020. It seems unlikely that he wrote the filesystem that powers s3. Improved, absolutely.
His partner was a manager, not an engineer, per https://www.geekwire.com/2024/former-aws-engineers-raise-3m-to-take-on-tech-giants-with-worlds-fastest-spreadsheet/ https://www.geekwire.com/2024/former-aws-engineers-raise-3m-...
Personally I don’t like this sort of puffery in funding slides nor announcements.
- gamegoblin 3y agoAll our backend engineers were on the S3 filesystem team. I'm Grant Slatton, founding engineer at Row Zero, and before this I designed and led the team that built S3's new filesystem, ShardStore (check out this paper https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~bornholt/papers/shardstore-sosp21.pdf https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~bornholt/papers/shardstore-sosp21...). Our other Row Zero backend engineers (Breck, Erich, Greg) were all on the team. Our frontend guy is ex-Airtable.
- QuinnyPig 3y agoOooh! Your reputation precedes you. Please, please, please put an “about us” page on your site. People get leery when there aren’t named humans identified as being behind a product that’s asking for production data access.
- codegeek 3y agoVCs invest in people and not products/ideas from what I have heard/read. I think it is imp. to mention that you were on the S3 team if you are building something like this. Huge credibility factor.