Gary Little

About Gary Little

I am a performance engineer with leadership experience interested in all aspects of systems performance. I have recently specialized in distributed storage performance at Nutanix.Most recent role- Founding Engineer for Nutanix performance engineering group (2013)- Grew team to ~20 engineers across US, EMEA, India. Promoted two engineers to manager roles- Recruited performance testers and product engineers, founded east coast engineering office- Created Nutanix X-ray product which enables advanced benchmark and resilience testing in distributed storage- Created distributed performance data collection and support analysis tool- Created automated performance ready-reckoner for sales engineers- Contributed to numerous performance improvements in performance and caching- Patent awarded for cache management with disjoint response times- Created and delivered deep-dive training for sales and support engineers globally. In-person and recorded- Multiple time presenter at Nutanix worldwide customer conferences. Voted top session 2018, 2019- Established repeatable methodology for effective competive analyis- Co-Author of the TPCx-HCi benchmark specification. Presented benchmark design at VLDB/TPCTC conference- Active member of the TPCPrior Roles - Performance analyst at NetApp. Worked on long term filesystem performance. SPC-1 and SFS benchmarks - Solaris Kernel and Perforance analyst at Sun Microsystems. Worked on OS performance and kernel panics with Oracle DB workloads and large SMP systems.

Experience

1. Principal Performance Architect

   Nutanix

   Mar 2022 — Present · Durham, NC, US

   Improving performance of Hyperconverged Systems.

Education

• University of Hertfordshire

  Bsc, Computer Science

  1990 — 1994

Skills

• Enterprise Architecture
• Debugging
• System Architecture
• Oracle Performance
• San
• File Systems
• High Performance Computing
• Unix
• Hp-UX
• Operating Systems
• Linux
• Nutanix
• Kernel
• Storage
• Tcp/Ip
• Cluster
• Data Center
• Sfs Benchmark
• Virtualization
• Hyperconverged Infrastructure
• Performance Tuning
• Perl
• Network-Attached Storage (Nas)
• Shell Scripting
• Red Hat Linux
• Solaris
• Troubleshooting
• Storage Architecture
• Nas
• Benchmarking
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Oracle
• Cloud Computing
• Hyperconverged
• Hyper Converged Infrastructure
• Nas Performance
• Analytical Troubleshooting
• Netapp
• Core Dump Analysis
• Filesystems