Overview

Gender

male

Thomas architects the S3 layer and the Hadoop integration of Western Digital's object storage system 'ActiveScale'. Together with the team, he has contributed multiple improvements to the Apache Hadoop s3a connector and has co-architected the HDFS Provided Storage feature.

He joined WD through the Amplidata acquisition. Previousl,y he obtained a Computer Science PhD in Queueing Theory at Ghent University, Belgium.