Recent Discussions
Hello from England!
Hi to the Pure Storage community! I'm Dan Banche, a Systems Engineer in the Pure Storage UK&I Enterprise team, a Yorkshireman based in the south-east of England. With a couple of decades in IT behind me, primarily focused on data protection and storage, I joined Pure in the summer of 2023. My experience working for/with partners, resellers and vendors has given me exposure to a variety of technologies within the data centre and clouds; IBM provided my initial foray into storage (TSM and SVC), followed by NetApp, Dell EMC (Data Domain, Isilon and ECS) and data protection as a service. All that puts me in a good position to appreciate the benefits of the Pure Storage data storage platform and its Evergreen architecture! You will see me at the FlashCrew Pure User Group events we run throughout the year, and if you do see me at any in-person events, please say hello!
London Calling...
Hi All - My Name is Ian Frith and I'm a Systems Engineer here at Pure Storage in the UK. I've worked in IT for 36 years with 15 of those in the glorious and arcane world of data storage (it's the arcane bit we're trying to change!). Always happy to share advice, war stories experiences - good and bad.Hello from Dublin
Hi everyone, I'm Andrew Pruski, a Principal Field Solution Architect at Pure Storage. Joined in September 2022 and before that I was a SQL Server DBA for around 15 years. I'm a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Docker Captain, and VMware vExpert. Here to help customers get 100% out of SQL Server when running on Pure!Hello from Utah
Hello! My name is Michael Floyd and I work in the NPI department at Pure Storage focusing on new Cloud Solutions and Products. My role allows me to work with out engineering teams and support teams to be ready for new projects that Pure Storage releases. I have been at Pure Storage for 6 year! My hobbies include BBQ and Blackstone Griddling, playing and coaching disc golf, and spending time with my busy family!
Hello from Michigan!
Hi everyone! I'm Valerie, a Principal Technologist here are Pure Storage, and I have many more years in the tech industry than I care to admit, including stints at Google, Dell, and EMC. I focus on AI/HPC, automotive, and (of course) cloud while I'm at work; personally, I am married with twin teen boys, and a sassy fur baby. I enjoy gaming (I met my husband while playing D&D in college), walking with my dog, baking, and playing ukulele moderately badly. I'm happy to be here, and look forward to interacting with everyone in the community!
Hello from Florida!
Hello! My name is David Stamen and I am the Director of Technical Strategy for Cloud and Virtualization. My role allows me to work with our customers, partners and our field to make our solutions successful! I have been happily at Pure Storage for over 5 years now. When not working (or on slack) you can find me 3D Printing, Building Legos, Cycling or Running (New "Hobby"!)Greetings from Chicago!
My name is Eric Shanks and I'm a Principal Technical Marketing Engineer for Portworx by Pure Storage. At Portworx I try to educate people about how cloud native storage solutions like Portworx Enterprise can manage persistent data for containers or KubeVirt based virtual machines to modernize your application stack.
Hello from VA
Greetings from the pollen-inundated Commonwealth of Virginia! My name is Greg and I'm a Principal Technologist over US Federal for a little over a year now. I've spent time at EMC(and all it's permutations to present day) and in the partner space covering just about every vertical out there. In my free time, I love traveling with my wife(the Disney Princess below), catching the occasional game and most recently steering into trade crafts. A good friend of mine has reminded me that as much as we work with technology, jumping from video conferences and traveling to events....it's a refresher for the brain to disconnect and work with your hands. And yes, like my shirt in the picture says....it's not the years it's the mileage ;)
Hi from Seattle!
I’m JD and I’m a Pure Employee leading our US and Canada based Principal Technologist team. I live just outside of Seattle (Lake Forest Park) with my family. I also get to occasionally co-host episodes of The Pure Report podcast with Ludes and anmiller. Outside of Pure I’m into a lot of geeky things. My wife says I collect hobbies. I host a Pathfinder tabletop RPG campaign that’s been running since 2019. I scuba dive. I’m a Ham radio operator (N8JD), and I play golf extremely poorly. I may be best known however for my tendency to get in front of a karaoke mic. I don’t sing well but I do sing a lot. 😝
