David Slik is a scientist and data storage researcher at the Huawei Canadian Research Institute. Before working at Huawei, he was a Technical Director at NetApp and a co-founder of Bycast, where he led the development of StorageGRID. He has 25+ years of experience in the design, development and productization of high-performance distributed storage systems, resulting in over 90 granted patents. David is an author of two ISO/IEC standards, a contributor to five other storage industry standards organizations, and a chair of the Cloud Storage Technical Work Group at SNIA and the Power Work Group at MLCommons.