Gaurav Agarwal is a Senior Distinguished Engineer at Marvell, where he leads the Memory and Storage Solutions team focused on next-generation AI infrastructure and open software standards. Over a 30-year career—including a decade at Marvell—he has delivered transformative contributions across storage, networking, and accelerated computing. Gaurav is an active contributor to the Open Compute Project (OCP), participating in initiatives such as CMS and FTI DCC. He serves as co-chair of the OCP CMS CxP workstream and contributes to the FTI DCC working group, advancing computational programming models, open formats, and HW/SW co-design for near-data processing to accelerate AI workloads at scale.