SDC 2018 Attendees Company Title Academia Sinica IT Alibaba Group Staff Engineer Amazon Web Servies Senior Software Engineer America Tecnologia CTO Anacode Labs, Inc. Founder and CEO Apple Software Development Engineer Apple SMB Cogs and Sprockets Engineer Apple Manager, Information Systems Apple Systems Engineer Apple Systems Engineer Apple Systems Engineer Applied Materials Japan, Inc. Technical director Aricent Director Technology Aricent Director - Technology, INNOVATION ARM Server System Architect Bachmann Law Group PC President Bigtera Inc. Senior Project Manager Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Alabama Systems Engineer-Consultant Box Sr. Staff Architect Broadcom Principal Architect Broadcom Software Engineer Broadcom Sr. Director, Engineering Broadcom Software Engineer Broadcom Inc. Storage Management Architect CachePhysics, Inc. CEO Catalyst IT Samba Developer Celestica Design Engineering Director Celestica Software Architect Celestica Director Celestica, LLC Senior Architect Central Bank of Brazil Analyst CERN Service Manager ChannelScience Chief Scientist Chip Design Magazine Semiconductor Technology Editor Cisco Senior Technical Leader Cisco Technical Leader Cisco Engineer Cisco Technical Leader Software Engineering Cisco MTS Cisco Software QA engineer Cisco R&D Engineer Cisco Tech Lead Cisco Engineering Technical Lead Cisco Hardware Design Engineer CNEX Labs Senior Software Engineer Coughlin Associates President Cray Storage System Architect Credit Suisse Director Cumulus Systems, Inc. Senior Product Manager Cumulus Systems, Inc. VP Engineering Data Dynamics Inc. Senior Software Engineer Data Dynamics Inc. QA manager Datacore Software Sr. Principal Sotware Engineer Dell Distinguished Engineer Dell Software Engineer Dell Engineer Dell Senior Principal Engineer Dell Technologist Dell EMC Sr. Principal Software Engineer Dell EMC Senior Software Engineer Dell EMC Technical Director Dell EMC Isilon Senior Software Engineer Dell EMC Isilon Senior Software Engineer Dell/EMC Software Engineer DellEMC Senior Director DellEMC Architect DellEMC Inc Sr. Manager. Software Engineering DELLEMC ISILON Software Engineer Design Exquisite/ NASA Director Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, DESY Project Director Docker, Inc Technical Alliances Dreamworks Technology Fellow DSSD Engineer eBay Sr. Engineer eBay Sr. Engineer eBay Sr. Engineer eBay Sr. Engineer eBay Sr. Engineer Eidetic Communications Principal Engineer Eidetic Communications VP Software Eideticom Chief Technology Officer Embraer S.A Supervisor EMC CORP Principal Engineer EMC Isilon Principal Software Engineer Enmotus Inc. CTO Facebook Hardware Engineer Facebook Hardware Systems Engineer, Storage Facebook Hardware Engineer Facebook Storage Engineer FreeBSD Foundation Software Engineer Fujitsu Sr. Storage Architect Fujitsu America Manager Fungible Storage Lead Futurewei Vice Predident of Technology Futurewei Technologies Director of Strategic Planning Futurewei Technologies Inc Engineer Futurewei Technologies, Inc. Head of Business Development for Storage, Huawei G2M Research Managing Partner Gainframe CTO Gen-Z Consortium President GenZSoftware.com Consultant Google Software Engineer Google Software Engineer Google Engineer Google Senior Software Engineer Google Software Engineer Google Software Engineer Google Cloud File Storage Product Manager Google Inc. Engineering Director Grass Valley Principal Architect - Software Hanyang University Professor Hewlett Packard Enterprise Software Engineer Hewlett Packard Enterprise SW Engineer Hewlett Packard Enterprise Software Engineer Hewlett Packard Enterprise Expert Software Engineer Hewlett Packard Enterprise Architect Hewlett Packard Enterprise Storage System Architect Hewlett Packard Enterprise Software Architect Hewlett Packard Enterprise Distinguished Technologist Hewlett Packard Enterprise Interop Architect Hewlett Packard Enterprise Distinguished Technologist Hewlett Packard Enterprise Storage Management Architect Hewlett Packard Enterprise Hardware Architect Hewlett Packard Enterprise Manager Hewlett Packard Enterprsie Master Technologist HGST Japan/CTO Group Senior Technologist Hitachi America Ltd. Researcher Hitachi Data Systems Sr. Director of Engineering Hitachi Vantara Solutions Architecht Hitachi Vantara Chief Product Architect Honeywell Sr. IT Fellow Hoya USA Marketing Rep Hewlett Packard Enterprise Software Engineer Hewlett Packard Enterprise Software Engineer Hewlett Packard Enterprise Software Engineer Hewlett Packard Enterprise Software Engineer Hewlett Packard Enterprise Software Engineer HPE Nimble Storage Cured Scientist HPE Nimble Storage Software Developer HPE Nimble Storage Expert HPE/3PAR Storage Architect HPE/Nimble Storage Architect Huawei IT Product Manager Huawei VP & CTO Cloud Storage Solution Huawei Software Engineer Huawei System Architect Huawei Principal Architect IBM Hardware Architect IBM Storage Test Engineer IBM Software Engineer IBM Data Scientist IHS Markit Storage Analyst Independent Consultant Consultant Inel Intel Fellow INFINIDAT CTO, InfiniBox Infinidat Ltd. Interoperabilty Team Lead Infinite IO Principal Engineer InfoBeans, Inc. SVP, DIgital Transformation Informa Electronic Design Inova Development President Insyde Software VP Insyde Software, Inc. Director of Sales-Western North America Intel Corporation Engineering Manager Intel Corporation Senior storage software developer Intel Corporation Senior Software Engineer Manager Intel Corporation Senior Performance Engineer Intel Corporation Intel Fellow Intel Corporation Data Center System Solutions Engineer Intel Corporation Business Development Manager Intel Corporation Software Architect Intel Corporation Senior Principal Engineer Intel Corporation Market Analyst Intel Corporation IT Pre-Silicon Technologist Intel Corporation Software Engineer Intel Corporation Director Intel Corporation Storage Architect Intel Corporation Product Manager Intel Corporation Principal Software Engineer Intel Corporation Product Planning Intel Corporation Software Engineer Intel Corporation Principal Engineer Intel Corporation Software Architect Intel Corporation Software Developer Intel Corporation Director of Technology Initiatives Intel Corporation Principal Engineer Intel Corporation Principal Engineer Intel Corporation Principal Engineer Intel Corporation Senior Software Development Engineer Intel Corporation Persistent Memory Software Architect Intel Corporation Software Engineer Intel Corporation Senior Principal Engineer Intel Corporation Market Analyst Intel Corporation Software Engineer Intel Corporation Product manager Intel Corporation Solution Architect Intel Corporation Strategic Planning & Product Manager Intel Corporation Research Scientist Intel Corporation Research Scientist Intel Corporation Storage driver developer Intel Corporation NVM Technologist Intel Corporation Business Development Manager Intel Corporation Principal Engineer Intel Corporation Senior Principal Engineer Intel Corporation Technology Initiatives Manager Intel Corporation Industry Enabling Manager Intel Corporation Application Engineer Intel Corporation Director Technology Enabling Intel Corporation Storage Software Architect Intel Corporation Marketing Manager Intel Corporation Software Engineer Intel Corporation Principal Engineer Intel Corporation software engineer Intel Corporation Staff Hardware Design Engineer Intel Corporation Software Architect Intel Corporation Marketing Manager Intel Corporation Software Engineer Intuitive Cognition Consulting Principal Itau Unibanco Technology Architect iX Systems, Inc. Sr. Software Engineer iXsystems Technical Marketing Engineer Jeskell Systems Director Storage Practice Jones Day Systems Engineer Kaminario Technologies Architect Kasten Inc Software Engineer Kasten, Inc. CEO and Co-Founder Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Storage Architect LBNL / NERSC Storage Systems Group Lightbits Labs Director Product Lightbits Labs Chief SW Architect LOCKSS Program Technical Lead Los Alamos National Laboratory HPC Division Leader Los Alamos National Laboratory Scientist Marvell Director of Worldwide Accounts Marvell Data Center Storage Solution (DCSS) Hardware System Architect Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. Senior Technologist Mayadata CTO Mckinsey & Co. Sr. Technology Engineer Mckinsey & Company Storage & Unix Technology Architect MemoScale Performance engineer MemoScale AS CEO Memverge Software Engineer MemVerge Technologist MemVerge Engineer Mentor Storage Product Specialist Mentor Graphics Product Engineer Micron VP Storage Solutions Architecture Micron Dir, FW Architecture and Advanced dev Micron Principle Systems Architect Micron Architect Micron Technology Corporate Strategy Microsemi Technical Director Microsemi Senior Technical Director Microsemi Technical Director Microsemi (Microchip) AE Microsoft Software Engineer Microsoft Software Engineer Microsoft Escalation Engineer Microsoft Architect Microsoft Principal Software Engineer Microsoft Senior Software Engineering Manager Microsoft Content Developer Microsoft Escalation Engineer Microsoft Software Engineer Microsoft Software Engineer Microsoft Program Manager Microsoft Team Lead/Program Manager Microsoft Software Design Engineer Microsoft Architect MICROSOFT Principal Software Engineer Microsoft Principal Software Engineer Microsoft Storage Architect Microsoft - Azure Storage Principal Software Engineer Microsoft Corporation Principal. Software Design Engineer Microsoft Corporation Protocol/Interoperability Support Microsoft Corporation Senior Program Manager Microsoft Research Principal RSDE Lead Moor Insights & Strategy Senior Analyst, Storage & Converged Systems Nallatech / Molex CTO & Founder, Nallatech Nantero Principal Systems Architect National Institute of Informatics Project Professor, Center fot Cloud Research and Devepment NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd Computer Engineer NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd Chief NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd. Assistant Manager NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd. Executive Professional NetApp Inc Software Engineer NetApp Inc Software Engineer NetApp Inc Software Engineer NetApp Inc Standards Technologist NetApp Inc Software Engineer NetApp Inc Software Engineer NetApp Inc MTS, Software Engineer NetApp Inc. Research Software Engineer NetApp Inc. CTO Office NetApp Inc. Director Industry Standards NetApp Inc. Member Technical Staff Netapp, Inc Senior Standards Technologist NetApp, Inc Principal Engineer NetApp, Inc. Technical Director NetApp Inc Software Developer NetApp Inc Storage Software Engineer NetApp Inc Software Engineer NetApp Inc. MTS SW NetApp Inc. Senior Software Engineer NetApp Inc. Software Engineer NetApp Inc. Storage System Architect/Engineer Netapp, Inc Software Performance Engineer NetApp, Inc Software Developer NetApp, Inc. Technical Director New Media Ventures Community Manager Newisys Server and Storage Division of Sanmina Corp CTO Nexenta Systems, Inc. Protocols Specialist NGD Systems Storage Technologist, VP Marketing NGD Systems, Inc. VP of Business Development NTT labs Open source software engineer Nutanix Sr MTS Nutanix Staff Engineer Nutanix Sr. Member of Technical Staff Nutanix Inc. Member of Technical Staff Nyriad CEO Nyriad, Ltd. VP Business Development Objective Analysis Gen'l Director OpenCAPI Consortium President OpenIO CTO Optum Foundation Engineer Oracle Senior software engineer Oracle ZFS Hacker Oracle Senior Software Engineer Oracle Senior Software Engineer Oracle Linux Kernel Architect Oracle Linux Storage Architect Oracle America Inc. Principle Software Engineer Oracle/Storage Software Engineer PCI-SIG Intel Fellow and Senior Principal Engineer Portworx Inc Senior Software Engineer ProPrincipia Principal Analyst QNAP Systems, Inc. Engineer QuintessenceLabs VP Sales QuintessenceLabs Chief Technology Officer Qumulo Member of Technical Staff Radian Memory Systems Principal Software Engineer Radian Memory Systems CEO Radian Memory Systems Principal Software Architect Radian Memory Systems Principal Software Architect RC Associates Principal Red Hat Senior Principal Engineer RedHat Principal Engineer Ryussi Technologies Pvt Ltd VP engineering Ryussi Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Principal Member of Technical Staff Sage Microelectronics Corp Engineering manager Sage Microelectronique President Samba Team / SerNet Developer Samba Team / WekaIO Samba Team Member Samsung Sr Manager Samsung Staff Software Engineer Samsung SSD IO Standards Samsung SSD Product Manager Samsung Electronics Principal Engineer Samsung Semiconductor Inc Sr. Staff Architect SANS Digital Technology BD and Solution Co-Founder Scale Computing CTO Scale Computing Senior Software Engineer ScaleFlux, Inc. EVP Marketing Scality R & D Engineer SCSI Trade Association; Toshiba Memory Board of Directors, SCSI Trade Association; Director of Marketing, America Inc. Enterprise SSD Outbound Marketing Seagate Technology Director, Strategic Partnerships Seagate Technology Software Engineer Seagate Technology Principal Hardware Technologist Seagate Technology Principal Engineer Seagate Technology Sr Director Product Management Seagate Technology Principle engineer Seagate Technology Sr. Engineering Manager SerNet CEO SerNet / Samba Team Developer SerNet GmbH Sales SerNet GmbH / Samba Team Developer Silinnov Consulting Senior analyst SK Hynix America Santosh Kumar SK Hynix America Senior Manager SK Hynix America Senior Engineer SK hynix memory solutions America Director of Industry Standards SKhynix/Memory System R&D Senior Engineer SMART Modular Technologies Sr. Field Applications Engineer SMART Modular Technologies Product Applications Engineer SMC GM of Storage Platform and Soltions Software Freedom Conservancy Distinguished Technologist Solarflare Communications Staff Software Engineer Spin Transfer Technologies VP of Product Spin Transfer Technology Business Development Stanford University Graduate Student Stein Writes Press Marketing StorageNewsletter Editor StorMagic CTO Super Micro Computer Product Manager Super Micro Computer, Inc. Senior Product Manager Super Micro Computer, Inc. Director, Server Product Supermicro Product Manager Supermicro Sr. Director, Server Solution Management Supermicro SVP, Technology SUSE Software Engineer SUSE Software Engineer SUSE/Samba Team Samba Team Lead Swiftstack Storage Architect Synopsys Sales Engineer Synopsys Software Engineer TechTHiNQ President Teradata Platform Storage Architect Thales Principal Software Engineer The Math Citadel Chief Scientist The Math Citadel Research Scientist The Ohio State University Research Scientist Tokyo Electron Device Ltd. VP Tokyo Electron Limited Expert Toshiba Sr. Distinguished Engineer Toshiba Memory America Sr. Manager Software Development Toshiba Memory America Memory Technologist Toshiba Memory America Technical Product Manager Toshiba Memory America, Inc. Director, Business Development Toshiba Memory America, Inc. VP SSD Technology Strategy Toshiba Memory Corporation Principal Engineer, industry Standards TUVRheinlandJapan Senior Specialist Tuxera Principal Engineer Tuxera Inc CEO Tuxera Inc. Sales Executive UC Berkeley Research Engineer UC Santa Cruz Ph.D. Student UCL Student UCSC Expert in Residence University of Texas at Arlington Professor and Chair of Computer Science and Engineering University of Toronto PhD Candidate University of Wisconsin - Madison Student UT Arlington Associate Professor Veritas Technologies LLC Sr Manager Engineering Veritas Technologies, LLC Product Management Violin Systems LLC VP, Product & Chief Architect Virtual Instruments RSM Virtual Instruments Principal Systems Engineer Virtual Instruments Sr professional Servises Engineer Virtual Instruments Principal Architect Virtual Instruments VP of Data Science Virtual Intruments Senior Director, Corp Marketing Visa Staff Systems Engineer Visa Chief System Engineer Visa Staff Systems Engineer Visuality Systems CEO WD Sr. Technologist WDC Linux Kernel Upstream Contributor WDC Engineer WekaIO Director Sales Engineering and Support WekaIO CEO, Co-Founder Western Digital Director Industry Standards Western Digital Engineering Fellow Western Digital Software Engineer Western Digital Technologist Western Digital Director Solid-State System Software Western Digital Corporation Staff Engineer Western Digital Corporation Senior Technologist Wipro Architect Xiamen University Associate Professor Xilinx Rakesh Cheerla X-IO Technologies Sr. Engineer X-IO Technologies Director, Firmware Development Yahoo Japan Corporation Engineer Yahoo! 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