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SNIA Developer Conference (SDC)

SDC provides vendor-neutral technical content on advancements in storage, networks, compute, and optimization of infrastructure for data.

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Speakers 2025

Richelle Ahlvers

SM Chair, SNIA Vice Chair, and Swordfish TWG Chair; Director of Ecosystem Enabling, and Technology Initiatives

Intel

Richelle Ahlvers runs Technology Initiatives and Ecosystem Enabling for the Datacenter / AI business for Intel, promoting and driving enablement of new technologies and standards strategies. Richelle has spent over 30 years in Enterprise R&D teams in a variety of technical roles, spanning architecture, design and development of software, firmware, and hardware, for everything from enterprise storage solutions to CPUs. Richelle has been engaged with industry standards initiatives for many years and is actively engaged with many groups including SNIA, DMTF, NVMe, OFA and UCIe. She is Vice-Chair of the SNIA Board of Directors, Chair of the Storage Management Initiative, leads the SSM Technical Work Group developing the Swordfish Scalable Storage Management API, and is a former SNIA Technical Council Chair. She serves on the DMTF Board of Directors as the VP of Finance and Treasurer.

Swati Chawdhary

Senior Manager,

Samsung

Swati Chawdhary is a Senior Manager at Samsung. She has diverse experience in Storage domain. Her recent work focuses on the test and development of NVMe-oF/NVMe controllers and All Flash Array reference designs. Before joining Samsung, she worked at Chelsio Communications, where she contributed to the development of their Unified Wire Adapters. She has participated in conferences like IEEE Wintechcon, FMS, SDC US/India and NVMe developer Days. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Pune University.

Floyd Christofferson

VP Product Marketing,

Hammerspace

Christofferson brings more than 25 years of content creation, content management and storage expertise focused on the methods and technologies needed to use and manage massive volumes of data. Most recently, he was CEO of StrongBox Data Solutions, an autonomous data management and data archiving provider. Previously, Christofferson served as CMO at Arcitecta IP Pty Ltd, a comprehensive data management platform company, and as Director, Storage Product Marketing at SGI for its InfiniteStorage products.

Anthony Constantine

Board Member. Micron Technologies - Distinguished Member of Technical Staff

NVMe

Anthony Constantine is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff responsible for Storage Standards at Micron. He is very active in SNIA as co-chair of the SFF TWG, an author for several EDSFF specifications, and author or contributor to several other SFF TWG specifications. He is also a past member of the SNIA Technical Council. In addition, Anthony contributes to PCI-SIG, JEDEC, NVMe, and Open Compute Platform (OCP). Anthony has over 25 years of experience in the technology industry with an expertise in memory, storage, physical interfaces, low power technologies, and form factors. He earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from UC Davis.

Clarete Crasta

Principal Engineer,

HPE

Clarete Crasta is a Principal Engineer in Hewlett Packard Enterprise, currently working in the HPC and AI Advance Development group. She is a well-recognized technical architect and has built a solid reputation over 20 years with deep system software expertise in High Performance Computing, memory and storage technologies, operating systems kernel, platform & IO, and virtualization. Her ability to drive and lead teams, focus on customers, willingness to take up any complex work in newer areas, effective communication skills, and active collaboration has gained her acceptance across the community. Clarete has experience leading and collaborating across teams, business units, customers and partners. She is a co-inventor on 7 US filed patents and has co-authored 7 publications. She has presented at various conferences such as SNIA CMS, SNIA SDC, CUG, GHCI on Fabric Attached Memory and related topics. She has worked as a member of the technical committee and review board for GHCI, IEEE and has served as a PC member for IC2E. She holds a master’s degree in software engineering and bachelor’s in electrical engineering.

Carl D'Halluin

CTO,

Datadobi

Carl D’Halluin brings over 25 years of deep expertise in designing distributed storage systems. He was a core architect behind Dell EMC Centera, the world’s first commercial object storage system. Centera established early standards for immutable and compliant storage. Carl was also the lead architect at Q-layer, a pioneer in cloud virtualization technology later acquired by Sun Microsystems. He continued pushing innovation at Amplidata as Chief Architect, designing an ultra-scalable, geo-distributed S3-compatible storage system. Following successive acquisitions by Western Digital and Quantum, this product is currently known as Quantum ActiveScale Object Storage. Now serving as Chief Technology Officer at Datadobi, Carl has shifted focus from the storage backend to the client layer, building intelligent software solutions for data analysis and data mobility in large-scale hybrid cloud environments, across file and object storage. An inventor at heart, Carl holds more than 25 patents in data storage technologies. His work continues to advance the state of the art in high-performance, hybrid data infrastructure for the enterprise.

David Flynn

CEO, Co-Founder,

Hammerspace

Hammerspace founder and Chief Executive Officer David Flynn is a recognized leader in IT innovation who has been architecting disruptive computing platforms since his early work in supercomputing and Linux systems. David pioneered the use of flash for enterprise application acceleration as founder and former CEO of Fusion-io, which was acquired by SanDisk in 2014. He served as Fusion-io President and CEO until May 2013 and board member until July 2013. Previously, David served as Chief-Architect at Linux Networx where he was instrumental in the creation of the OpenFabrics stack and designed several of the world’s largest supercomputers leveraging Linux clustering, InfiniBand, RDMA-based technologies. David holds more than 100 patents in areas across web browser technologies, mobile device management, network switching and protocols to distributed storage systems. He earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science at Brigham Young University and serves on boards for several organizations and startup companies.

Mariam Gewida

Product Manager,

Microsoft

Mariam is a Security Product Manager at Microsoft, driving the strategy and execution of initiatives to harden Windows authentication and eliminate legacy protocols such as NTLM. With a background in both engineering and program management, Mariam partners closely with product teams, customers, and the broader security ecosystem to modernize identity protocols and improve enterprise authentication experiences. Her work focuses on bridging technical depth with practical adoption, helping organizations navigate the complexities of transitioning from legacy authentication in storage and networking scenarios. Mariam holds a doctorate in Computer Science with a concentration in Cybersecurity, and is passionate about building secure, scalable systems that meet real-world enterprise needs.

Jonmichael Hands

CEO

FarmGPU

Jonmichael Hands is the Chief Executive Officer for FarmGPU, a data center provider of sustainable GPU hosting and AI infrastructure, catering to the increasing global demand for cost-effective, high-performance compute and storage resources. Before this, he advised Chia Network in storage and sustainability. JM spent the prior ten years at Intel in the Non-Volatile Memory Solutions group working on product line management, strategic planning, and technical marketing for the Intel data center SSDs. In addition, he served as the chair for NVM Express (NVMe), SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) SSD special interest group, and Open Compute Project for open storage hardware innovation. JM started his storage career at Sun Microsystems designing storage arrays (JBODs) and holds an electrical engineering degree from the Colorado School of Mines.

Eshcar Hillel

Principal Research Scientist

AsteraLabs

Eshcar Hillel is leading AI research at Astera Labs, driving memory and storage solutions for emerging workloads such as generative AI, deep learning recommender systems, and learning systems in general.
Eshcar specializes in theory and practice of distributed systems and in parallel computing. Previously, Eshcar was a research director at Yahoo Research, was a contributor and PMC of open source projects, published over 25 scientific papers in leading academic venues and holds several U.S. patents. She holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

William Moyes

Fellow

AMD

William Moyes is a key contributor and Editor for the SDXI specification. He is an AMD Fellow and End-to-End Server Architect with 25 years of experience in the PC ecosystem. His background includes Security, Storage, Firmware, and Persistent Memory. He also serves on the UEFI board of directors.

Sergei Platonov

VP of Strategy,

Xinnor

Sergei Platonov is the Vice President of Strategy at Xinnor, a technology company specializing in storage solutions. Sergei's journey in the tech industry began in 2010 when he graduated from the university, earning a degree in Computer Science. With a strong passion for storage technologies, he joined SDS start-up in 2009. Throughout his career, Sergei has been instrumental in the development of Storage Area Networks (SAN) and has focused on the research and implementation of cutting-edge technologies such as Flash, NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express), CXL (Compute Express Link), and storage performance improvement techniques. His expertise in these areas has enabled Xinnor to create highly efficient and reliable storage solutions that cater to the evolving needs of businesses. Sergei's contributions to the industry go beyond development work. He is a recognized thought leader and has delivered more than 30 presentations at conferences, sharing his insights and knowledge on storage technologies. Additionally, he has authored numerous articles, shedding light on the advancements in Storage Class Memory and its impact on storage performance.

Shruti Sethi

Senior PM,

Microsoft

Shruti Sethi is a Zealous professional having a deep experience in both computing and storage systems. She has 12+ years industry experience working extensively on Graphics power management, workload management, setting performance targets and Data Center storage hardware. She is currently most vested into End-to-End Cost Optimized Storage, Efficient Storage Management techniques, Pricing for Storage Services and simultaneously driving Sustainability in Storage Solutions. Shruti is a part of the strategy product team driving the next wave of initiatives in AZURE STORAGE. She is also the Steering Committee Representative of Open Compute Project's Sustainability Projects and strives to push industry Sustainability work. Shruti has a Master of Science in Computer Architecture from Georgia Institute of technology and an MBA from University of California, Berkeley (Haas School of Business).

Addison Snell

CEO,

Intersect360 Research

Addison Snell is a veteran of the High Performance Computing industry and the co-founder and CEO of Intersect360 Research, delivering data and insights covering the HPC-AI market and coordinating the HPC-AI Leadership Organization (HALO). He launched his company in 2007 as Tabor Research, a division of Tabor Communications. He brought the company independent in 2009 as Intersect360 Research together with his partner, Christopher Willard, Ph.D. Under his leadership, Intersect360 Research has become a premier source of market information, analysis, and consulting for the high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI). Addison is a frequent keynote speaker and panel moderator at industry events, has testified before the U.S.-China Economic & Security Review Commission Congressional Subcommittee, and was named one of 2010’s “People to Watch” by HPCwire. Prior to Intersect360 Research, Addison was an HPC industry analyst for IDC. Addison originally gained industry recognition as a marketing leader and spokesperson for SGI’s supercomputing products and strategy. Addison holds a master’s degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania. Addison is a competent bridge player, an excellent Scrabble player, and a puzzle and game enthusiast, particularly word puzzles. In 2022 he achieved a life “bucket list” goal of constructing crosswords for the New York Times.

Ross Stenfort

Hardware Systems Engineer,

Meta

Ross Stenfort is a Hardware System Engineer at Meta delivering scalable storage solutions. He has been involved in the development of storage systems, SSDs, ROCs, HBAs and HDDs with many successful products and over 40 patents. Some of his industry and ecosystem activities include being OCP Storage Co-Lead and a NVM Express board member.

Anisa Su

Associate Engineer,

Samsung

Anisa Su joined the Global Open eco-System Team within the memory division of Samsung as a software engineer after graduating from the University of Washington with a B.S. in Computer Science in 2024. She is interested in building expertise in systems software/memory management.

Vasily Tarasov

Principal Research Scientist,

IBM

Vasily Tarasov is a Principal Research Scientist at IBM. His research and engineering interests revolve around data storage, focusing on high-performance storage systems for Hybrid Clouds and AI. At IBM Vasily led research projects on making IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) container-native, building a storage acceleration tier for AI workloads, and creating high-performance object store for data lakehouse. Most recently Vasily works on building and operating high-performance storage solutions for IBM's Vela supercomputer for AI. In the past, Vasily studied data deduplication, storage performance and workload analysis, user-space file systems, and storage for containers. Vasily holds Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Stony Brook University, published dozens of papers in systems conferences, and regularly serves on program committees of top-tier storage conferences.

Jeff Terrace

Senior Staff Software Engineer,

Google

Jeff Terrace is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google, where he has worked on Google Cloud Storage for the past 12 years. He is a tech lead for GCS's Serving Frontend team, which maintains GCS's XML compatibility API. Prior to coming to Google, he earned his PhD in Computer Science from Princeton University where he studied distributed systems. He currently lives and works from his home in Massachusetts.

Riley Thomasson

Member of Technical Staff,

Pure Storage

Riley has been building high-performance data paths at Pure Storage for over a decade. He spent several years leading the performance team for Pure's flagship enterprise products, driving quality and efficiency for a $1B+ revenue stream. More recently, as a founding engineer and architect at Pure's Hyperscale Line of Business, he is building flash storage solutions for the largest applications in the world.

Diman Zad Tootaghaj

Senior Researcher

HPE

Diman Zad Tootaghaj is a Senior Researcher at Hewlett Packard Labs in California. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University, and her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology. Her research focuses on advancing computer networks and distributed systems, with interests spanning serverless computing, sustainability in computing, network programmability, SmartNICs, SD-WAN, edge-as-a-service platforms, serverless orchestration and auto-scaling, CXL, optimization algorithms, and consensus protocols.

Huihuo Zheng

Computer Scientist,

Argonne National Laboratory

Huihuo Zheng is a Computer Scientist in the AI/ML group at Argonne National Laboratory. His research focuses on high-performance data management, parallel I/O, and large-scale distributed training for deep learning and large language models. He applies these techniques to advance domain sciences such as physics, chemistry, and material sciences. As the co-lead of the MLPerf Storage Working Group, Huihuo plays a key role in developing benchmark suites to evaluate storage system performance for demanding AI applications.

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