User:Dmbyte

David Byte
Summary David Byte is a technology strategist and visionary in adapting emerging technology to business problems. In his current role, he has championed and advanced ARMv8 support with SUSE Linux Enterprise through acting as technical business development. He has been the public face of SUSE based ARMv8 announcement since 2015. David is also a subject matter expert in the field of storage. He currently defines reference architectures and configurations to meet the requirements of viable use cases for SUSE Enterprise Storage, which is based on Ceph. He has heavily championed the features and functionalities that enable a data center to adopt this new storage using their current process and structure while preparing them to implement the next generation of technology.

A serial entrepreneur, David Byte has been involved with creating and running businesses since founding his first services company, Computers & Car Stereos in 1988. Since that time David has been involved with many startup company ideas including the following:

-Computers & Car Stereos 1988

-Byte Computer Services 1993

-Excalibur Connections 1995

-Steal-it.com Auctions 1997

-CookingWithGranny.com 1998

-FreeCell 2000

-ITGizmos.com 2001

-MyIvault.com 2003*

-Future Reality Solutions 2007 *

-NOMEREL 2008*


 * = active businesses

In addition to helping found startup companies, David has also been employed full-time with several different companies.

Sprint Paranet - 1997 - 1999 - Technical Analyst

NetApp - 1999-2002 - Systems Engineer

UpTime - 2002-2007 - Sr. Engineer & CTO

FCN Technologies - 2007-2008 - Western Sr. SE

PlateSpin 2008 - 2009 - Alliances Engineer

2009 - present - SUSE

David is also a member of the Society of Industry Leaders.