Byron Rakitzis

Baroque violin

Byron Rakitzis is a storage software expert with more than 30 years in the industry. He focuses on the scalability and performance of distributed systems, now at Snowflake, but previously at Google, Amazon, and NetApp. Byron was the first employee hired at NetApp, and was responsible for one third of the code in its first product. Over his career Byron has authored or contributed to over 30 patents in storage and filesystems. Byron earned his bachelor’s degree in Physics at Princeton University. Outside his career in technology, Byron pursues his passion for baroque music, and has been a freelance baroque violinist, flutist, oboist, and bassoonist for orchestras throughout North America. Byron has served on the board of Early Music America.