Natalie Ross

Experience

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  InfoGlide Corporation

  Oct 1999 - Nov 2000

  Software Developer

  Designed, implemented, and maintained custom web applications using InfoGlide's core technology, the Similarity Search Engine.Technologies used include Java Servlets, Java Server Pages, XML, XSL, JDBC, Oracle 8i, Apache, Apache JSERV, and gnujsp.

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  INetProfit Corporation

  Nov 2000 - Jul 2002

  Software Developer

  Created multi-threaded, object-oriented Java applications for downloading and processing newsgroup, mailing list, and web forum postings for the purpose of generating sales information based on the context of public messages. Technologies used include Java, JDBC, ColdFusion, Oracle 8.1.6 with interMedia text indexing, PL/SQL stored procedures, IIS

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  IBM

  Jun 2004 - Oct 2011

  Software Engineer / Technical Manager

  Developed high-performance image processing algorithms for the image transform subsystem, which operates within printer controllers capable of producing thousands of pages per minute* Implemented and maintained components to handle image compression/decompression, color conversion, scaling, rotation, and parsing of various image formats* Delivered significant performance enhancements: image operations in the compressed domain, one-pass, simultaneous execution of several image operations, and a sophisticated image caching system (see patents)* Promoted to technical manager of the team in 2009 Show less

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  Oracle

  Oct 2011 - Oct 2017

  Principal Software Engineer / Technical Lead

  Architect performance enhancements for the Zettabyte File System (ZFS), core to the Solaris Operating System and ZFS Storage Appliance • Redesigned file prefetch to achieve up to a 10x performance improvement on industry-standard benchmarks (patented)• Implemented a read-ahead algorithm in the disk drive resilvering code, yielding an 80% reduction in post-fault spare population time • Led the release of our first flash storage product offering• Identified and resolved software bottlenecks to attain a 3x increase in I/O operations per second on Oracle Public Cloud workloads Show less

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  Google

  Oct 2017 - now

  - Manage a team of 10 software engineers working on backend infrastructure for Google Drive Drive cost and performance; Drive backend infrastructure

  • Software Engineering Manager

    Apr 2021 - now

  • Staff Software Engineer

    Oct 2017 - Apr 2021