Mike Shapiro | |
|---|---|
| Born | Michael W. Shapiro |
| Occupation | Software engineer |
Michael W. Shapiro is an American computer programmer who worked in operating systems and storage atSun Microsystems,Oracle, andEMC.
While working at Sun Microsystems, Shapiro developedpgrep, theModular Debugger (MDB),DTrace, fault management and diagnosis, and other software for Sun'sSolaris operating system.[1]
Thepgrep andpkill utilities Shapiro created are today found in every majorUnix operating system, includingLinux,[2]BSD,[3] andmacOS,[4] and are commonly used by system administrators and developers.[5][6]
Shapiro and the DTrace team received a Technology Innovation Award and Overall Gold Medal for Innovation for DTrace fromThe Wall Street Journal in 2006.[7]DTrace was also recognized byUSENIX with the Software Tools User Group (STUG) award in 2008.[8] Over the next 10 years, DTrace was ported and incorporated into other major operating systems, including BSD[9] and Apple's macOS.[10]
Starting in 2006, Shapiro led Sun's engineering effort to build a commercial storage product using Solaris and Sun'sZFS filesystem, announced in 2008.[11] In interviews with theNew York Times[12] andFortune,[13] Shapiro explained how a small engineering team at Sun dubbed "Fishworks" pitched the project to Sun's executives and developed the product outside of Sun's organizational structure.
AfterOracle Corporation acquired Sun, Shapiro managed engineering for storage products as Vice President for Storage. Oracle reported in 2015 that the ZFS Storage product line had surpassed $1B in revenue.[14]
Shapiro announced his departure from Oracle in a 2010 blog posting,[15] and was revealed several years later as a member of the founding team of DSSD when EMC purchased the startup.[16] He developed the DSSD software architecture with fellow Sun engineerJeff Bonwick, and served as DSSD's vice president for software. Shapiro explained how DSSD built the industry's firstNVM Express pooled storage system for multiple host computers in a 2016 interview with theHot Aisle podcast.[17] The DSSD product was used in the TACC 2015 "Wrangler" computer cluster[18] and received HPCwire's Editor's Choice Award later that year.[19]
After EMC was acquired byDell Technologies, the DSSD group was folded into the EMC storage product division in 2017.[20]
Shapiro was a co-author of theNVM Express over Fabrics storage protocol announced in 2014.[21] By 2019, IDC analysts reported that NVMeoF was disruptingSAN purchasing by offering significant performance improvements for networkedSSDs.[22]
