SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
Anthony Constantine
Distinguished Engineer
Dell
Distinguished Engineer in Dell's Office of CTO experienced at Researching, Designing, Developing, Debugging, Validating, Leading and Driving System and Software solutions that have an industry-wide impact. Experienced in leading research concepts that turn into industry-first products or influence roadmaps significantly. With 37 granted patents and 21 pending, Shyam has wide experience with Kernel, Device Drivers, Operating Systems, Virtualization, FPGA/Hardware device definitions, system architecture, performance tuning, Simulation, characterization, Storage Networking protocol stacks, OS/BIOS interfaces, Systems management, CPU micro-architecture, etc. He regularly presents/reviews solutions internally and externally with C-level execs/customers/developer-oriented audiences. Shyam writes code/reviews them for relief and enjoys a healthy smattering of technical and business-oriented discussions. Shyam is also the Chair for SDXI(Smart Data Acceleration Interface), a newly formed SNIA TWG which aims to develop, extend and drive an extensible, virtualizable, forward-compatible, memory to memory data movement and acceleration interface standard.
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