Joshua Robinson is a Founding Engineer on the FlashBlade team and is currently leading the development of big-data on FlashBlade solutions. He spent 3 years on the core development team architecting and building the FlashBlade from the ground-up and was responsible for core IO and metadata components. Prior to Pure, Joshua worked as a data scientist in the search infrastructure team at Google, focused on the data pipelines and machine-learning algorithms for selecting and crawling the Internet. Joshua graduated with a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University in 2009, with a focus on machine learning and algorithms.