# Wendy Mala Peikes

> software tools |  debuggers | compilers | automation | CI/CD | patented innovator

Location: Cupertino, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/wendymalapeikes

Software Tools Developer with a wide variety of experience in vastly different sizes, styles, and ages of corporations and types of tools. Currently responsible for enhancing and supporting all existing debugging tools for a medium-sized storage company, as well as designing and creating next-generation debugging tools.

My primary focus is always my in-house user  community: in designing their new product features and for supporting them in using existing software tools.

Specialties: C/C++, Perl, Java, Python, Ada, shell scripting
GNU/FSF tools, GDB, Oracle/Sybase SQL, CVS, Clearcase, Perforce, Unix/Linux,
Debuggers, Compilers, Operating Systems

## Work Experience
### Staff Engineer @ Nutanix
Jan 2023 – Present | San Jose, California, United States
Staff Engineer in Development Productivity Group focusing on Build, Release and Code Quality tools.

### software tools engineer @ NetApp
Jan 2007 – Jan 2023
Work on debuggers (gdb) and custom user-oriented debugger
front-ends to facilitate ease of use and and a more productive
debugging  environment.

### software tools engineer @ NetApp
Jan 2007 – Jan 2023
Creating, enhancing and supporting the suite of debugging tools used to debug NetApp's ONTAP operating system.

### Senior Developer of QA Automation Tools @ VMware, Inc.
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007
Created scaffolding modules for in-house customization of  open-
source test automation harness (STAF: Software Test Automation
Framework). Modules were created as STAF services in Java using
Eclipse development environment.

Also created numerous program-development tools including a perl-
to-java translator that generated STAF service code.

### software tools engineer @ cisco
Jan 1995 – Jan 2006
Software Engineer; Software Tools Developer; worked on debuggers
(gdb), post-mortem crash analyzers for Cisco's Internetworking
Operating System (IOS) and newer OS's.

### Software Engineer; Software Tools Developer @ cisco
Jan 1995 – Jan 2006
building and supporting debugging tools

### software engineer @ Cisco (San Jose)
Jan 1995 – Jan 2006
- Creating debugging tools
- Designing and implementing a suite of tools that extracts the CLI (command language interface) from operating system code and produces on-line documentation and user manuals for the CLI; I received two patents for the CLI extractor and doc generator.

### software engineer @ Gain/Sybase
Jan 1993 – Jan 1995
Created performance tools and performance test framework for Gain's Multimedia Development Platform.  Wrote packaging tools; represented Gain in Multimedia Standards Committee.  Presented papers on Performance Tuning and Uses of Multimedia at Sybase Users Group and IEEE Asilomar Conference.

### software engineer @ MasPar
Jan 1991 – Jan 1992
Worked on parallelizing C compiler for Massively Parallel Computer.

### software engineer @ Rational
Jan 1983 – Jan 1991
Created program development tools in ADA for in-house ADA 
developers at Rational as well as outside customers.  Wrote cross-debuggers and native debuggers for the language ADA.

### software engineer @ Hewlett Packard
Jan 1976 – Jan 1983
creating and supporting compilers


## Education
### SB in CS/EE
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### Masters in Computer Science/Computer Engineering
Stanford University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/wendypeikes

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Last updated: 2026-04-12