About Us
NSPLabSM is a privately held company that specializes in
providing software engineering for any size company from startups up to
Fortune 100 corporations.
NSPLabSM has extensive experience with NAS and SAN; in fact,
our experience pre-dates both of these acronyms. Our engineers are experts
in networking protocols (Ethernet, IP, UDP, TCP, RPC, NFS, CIFS, ...), file
systems, volume managers (RAID), and NVRAM-based write acceleration. Our
engineers are well-versed on Fibre Channel, SCSI, iSCSI, and SATA.
Founded in 2003, NSPLabSM is located in beautiful El Paso, Texas,
where the moderate climate is enjoyable year round.
Management
John Corbin
President, Founder
As a founder in 2003, Mr. Corbin brings over 30 years of experience in
the computing industry, the last 21 years in computer storage, to his
position at NSPLabSM. Prior, he was Chief Architect at CME
Enterprises, Inc. where he architected and designed a NAS and SAN-based
high performance scalable storage solution.
Mr. Corbin was at Sun Microsystems for 13 years where he worked on
numerous projects including the design and implementation of a floating
license server, the improvement of the NFS implementation and the
improvement of NFS server performance. Additionally, Mr. Corbin ported
NFS to a multi-processor OS, re-designed an NVRAM cache driver; implemented
Networking Drivers and was the Performance Engineer for the Server and
Network Storage organizations benchmarking NAS and SAN performance.
Finally, Mr. Corbin served as the Architect for a terabyte Solid State Disk
Array and as Architect for low-end NAS and SAN storage products.
Mr. Corbin has 30 years of C programming experience, 20 years of UNIX
kernel development experience, 4 years of Java programming experience, and
5 years of PERL programming experience. Mr. Corbin holds numerous patents,
was a member of the ANSI Standards Committee X3J11 C Programming Language,
the LADDIS Consortium, and the SPEC SFS subcommittee. Mr. Corbin wrote the
book entitled The Art of Distributed Computing (1991)
and has given numerous presentations at industry conferences. Mr. Corbin
was an Adjunct Professor at the University of Texas at El Paso Computer
Science Department where he taught computer networking and distributed
computing courses. Mr. Corbin worked on the original SPEC SFS benchmark
as well as the SFS2008 benchmark.
Careers
Are you looking for a change? Do you want to live where housing is
affordable and the community would love to have you? Do you want to work
on leading edge technology? Are you a fantastic programmer/engineer?
If your answer is an emphatic "yes!" then NSPLabSM and El Paso
are looking for you. In El Paso the median home price is $120,000 and
$250,000 will get you a very nice home. NSPLabSM is a fast
growing software engineering firm run by engineers for engineers.
NSPLabSM provides 10 paid holidays (6 are flex - celebrate
whatever holidays you want), 5 paid sick days, vacation pay, and employer
contributions for health and dental insurance (choose the insurance
company you want). NSPLabSM is looking for the best
programmers/engineers in the industry to fill the following positions:
Member of the Technical Staff - Automation Development
Member of the Technical Staff - Automation Execution
Senior Member of the Technical Staff
Send in your resume to jobs@nsplab.com
Contact Us
EP Network Storage Performance Lab, Inc.
910 E. Redd Rd Ste K #411
El Paso, TX 79912
USA
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Phone: 915-726-0535