Niels Maumenee

Niels Maumenee has extensive work experience in the field of cloud storage engineering and system administration. Niels currently holds the position of Senior Cloud Storage Engineer at Constant, where they are responsible for architecting, deploying, documenting, and maintaining a large-scale storage infrastructure using Ceph technology. Niels also manages capacity, procurement, and deployment of cluster resources.

Prior to joining Constant, Niels worked at DreamHost as a Cloud Systems Engineer. In this role, they oversaw the maintenance, configuration, and operation of DreamObjects, a Ceph-backed object storage platform. Niels collaborated with tech support to solve customer issues and worked with data center operations to ensure hardware maintenance. Additionally, they worked closely with OpenStack engineers to maintain Ceph block device storage for DreamHost's public cloud and DreamPress product.

Before their tenure at DreamHost, Niels held positions at The University of Montana. As a System Administrator in Science Compute Services, they deployed and managed an OpenStack Cloud running the Kilo release to support research in the College of Forestry. Niels also designed and built a Ceph cluster for block and object storage in the OpenStack environment.

In their earlier roles at the university, Niels worked as a Research Scientist, focusing on the development of a hydrologic Geographic Information System (GIS) for salmon habitat conservation. Niels handled database maintenance, data management and processing, and created Python scripts for spatial queries and database maintenance. Niels utilized the R Statistical Package for spatial data analysis and built customized geoprocessing models.

Additionally, Niels served as a Curriculum Technology Specialist as part of the EOS Education Project at The University of Montana. Niels developed and taught workshops on remote sensing, GIS, and GPS for students and teachers. Niels used GIS software packages to create educational projects that aligned with state and national education standards, and provided support to teachers in implementing GIS projects for students.

Overall, Niels Maumenee's work experience showcases their expertise in cloud storage engineering, system administration, GIS, and data analysis.

Niels Maumenee completed their Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology at Colorado College from 1992 to 1996. Later on, they pursued a Master of Arts degree in Teaching Secondary Science at The Johns Hopkins University, which they completed in 2000.