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SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA

Javier Gonzalez

Principal Software Engineer

Samsung Electronics

I lead Samsung Memory Solutions open-source activities and manage a distributed team of highly talented engineers. This includes defining strategy, internal / external communication, and day-to-day execution. I am also the founder and site manager for Samsung Semiconductor Denmark Research (SSDR) - Samsung’s Memory Solutions first R&D center in Europe and fifth worldwide. I am a Ph.D in operating systems with a strong background in technical leadership, experimental research, and Linux Kernel development. My interests lay primarily in the hardware / software co-design space, where systems software, hardware architecture, and open-source meet. I am dedicated to defining safe environments for motivated software engineers to be creative and get things done. I am a contributor to a wide range of open-source projects including the Linux Kernel. I am a regular speaker at several top industry and academic conferences. Specialties: Compassionate Leadership, Systems Software Development, Linux Kernel, NVMe, Hyperscale / Data Center / Enterprise Storage, Open-Channel SSDs, Zoned Namespaces (ZNS), SSD Architecture, Software Defined Storage, Computational Storage.

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