SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
Nick Connolly is the Chief Scientist at MayaData and a pioneer of storage virtualization with 20+ years of experience, holding patents ranging from highly scalable algorithms through to data protection techniques. As Chief Architect, his background in real-time computing and Unix multiprocessing led to the creation of DataCore’s world-class high-performance storage stack on Windows. Recently he has been working on the open source WPDK project (https://wpdk.github.io), bringing the power and performance of NVMe to Windows using SPDK.