David Hitz is an American engineer. In 1992, he and James Lau founded NetApp, where he became an executive vice president.
A graduate of Deep Springs College, David earned a BSE from Princeton University and went on to work as a senior engineer at Auspex and as an engineer at MIPS Computer Systems.
He is co-recipient (with James Lau) of the 2007 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award.[1]