Well, maybe not so much a leap as a shove.
After 3 years at Yellowbrick Data in a variety of System Engineering and Performance Benchmarking roles, I’m back to the consulting lifestyle. Sad to be moving on after a 5+ year relationship that began with my technical due diligence and Seed/A-round investment recommendation while at Samsung, but I take with me a bunch of new “chops”, perspectives, and most importantly a set of relationships with a number of colleagues who have already been extremely supportive as I start a difficult transition.
So I’m very much looking forward to what lies ahead.
New Horizons
Moving forward, I’m planning to continue my work in scale out computing and storage architectures applied to “big and fast” data applications — scalable databases, analytics, and machine learning.
I’ll do an initial blog series on Performance Benchmarking in Data Warehousing Analytics environments, sharing some of the insights I’ve developed over the last 5 years of performance engineering work. I’m hoping to redirect some of my skills to big compute / big data challenges in life sciences, possibly in conjunction with COVID research. I spent a number of years working on genomics and proteomics “big data” applications with pioneers Affymetrix, Perlegen Sciences, Celera Genomics, and PE Biosciences, and am looking forward to returning to that sphere.
I also hope to refresh my teaching skills, and to re-engage in STEM mentoring with underprivileged youth.
(And yes, that’s my son again in that photo).
Hi Bruce,
I can see why Steve connected us. I will write you a separate email and look forward to speaking with you on some potential win-win synergistic opportunities. I look forward to reading your blogs.
Mike Gluck
P.S. – where is that photo taken and how old is your son and who took the picture?
Thx … look forward to connecting.
Photo was taken by one of his climbing partners in Australia at Point Perpendicular, appropriately named.