David Hitz is an American engineer. In 1992, he, James Lau, and Michael Malcolm founded

NetApp NetApp, Inc. is an American hybrid cloud data services and data management company headquartered in San Jose, California. It has ranked in the Fortune 500 from 2012–2021. Founded in 1992 with an IPO in 1995, NetApp offers cloud data services ...

, where he became an executive vice president. A graduate of Deep Springs College, Hitz earned a BSE from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the n ...

and went on to work as an engineer at

MIPS Computer Systems MIPS Technologies, Inc., formerly MIPS Computer Systems, Inc., was an American fabless semiconductor design company that is most widely known for developing the MIPS architecture and a series of RISC CPU chips based on it. MIPS provides pro ...

and as a senior engineer at

Auspex Systems Auspex Systems was a computer data storage company founded in 1987 by Larry Boucher, who was previously CEO of Adaptec. It was headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Auspex introduced the first network-attached storage (NAS) devices. After a ...

. He is co-recipient (with James Lau) of the 2007

IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award The IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award is a Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers#Technical field awards, Technical Field Award of the IEEE given each year to an individual, multiple recipients, or team up to th ...

. In February 2019, Hitz announced his retirement as executive vice president of NetApp.

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Dave Hitz' blog
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