Brian Atkinson is a HPC Engineer at Los Alamos National Lab in the HPC-DES. His research is focused on next generation storage systems at LANL. Brian has worked on building fast storage endpoints, which leverage new and emerging storage technologies. He has made contributions to various open-source file system projects. He led the source code development of adding Direct I/O support to ZFS. His work has focused on improving performance and efficiencies with distributed file systems.