Ghassan Yammine

Ghassan Yammine has extensive work experience in the software engineering field. Ghassan started their career at IBM in 1987, where they held various LAN-related positions. Ghassan then joined Pervasive Software in 1996 as a Senior Lead Software Engineer, working on database, networking, and multi-platform projects. After that, they worked at Surgient Inc from 2000 to 2006, focusing on enterprise software and virtualization, primarily in Windows and Linux environments.

Following Surgient Inc, Yammine worked as a Principal Software Engineer at Pervasive Software on a contract basis, integrating a third-party system accelerator with Pervasive PSQL. Ghassan then joined Storspeed in 2007, a startup delivering a distributed caching solution for the NAS market. At Storspeed, they contributed to the software architecture and design of a clustered NFS caching solution.

In 2010, Yammine transitioned to CacheIQ, which was a re-start of Storspeed. CacheIQ was acquired by NetApp in 2012, where Yammine continued their work as a Principal Software Engineer. During their time at NetApp, they played a senior role in engineering teams, contributing to the architecture and design of solutions such as a transparent NAS migration application.

Yammine's next role was at NetApp as a Senior Staff Software Engineer. Ghassan focused on developing a geo-distributed file system and a large-scale data streaming platform using technologies such as Confluent Inc. and Apache Kafka. Ghassan also implemented an S3-centric write-back cache for caching and I/O acceleration.

In 2017, Yammine joined Bazaarvoice as a Senior Staff Software Engineer. In this role, they led a team in creating and deploying a large-scale data streaming platform that powers multiple Bazaarvoice applications, using technologies from Confluent Inc. and Apache Kafka.

Throughout their career, Yammine has showcased strong leadership skills and expertise in software architecture, design, and development across various technologies and industries.

Ghassan Yammine attended the University of Houston from 1978 to 1983, where they pursued a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) degree. Unfortunately, no specific information regarding their field of study was provided.