Shyam Iyer

"Shyam Iyer is a Distinguished Engineer in Dell's Chief Technology and Innovation Office experienced in Researching, Designing, Developing, Debugging, Validating, Leading, and Driving System and Software solutions that have an industry-wide impact. With 50+ granted patents and several patent pending applications, Shyam has wide experience with Kernel, Device Drivers, Operating Systems, Virtualization, FPGA/Hardware device definitions, system architecture, performance tuning, Simulation, characterization, Storage Networking protocol stacks, OS/BIOS interfaces, Systems management, CPU micro-architecture, security architectures, etc. He works on a variety of forward-looking concepts and strategies in Dell’s technical leadership community. He regularly presents/reviews solutions internally and externally with C-level execs, customers, and developer-oriented audiences. Shyam writes code/reviews them for relief and enjoys a healthy smattering of technical and business-oriented discussions. Among his SNIA activities, Shyam is the Chair for SDXI (Smart Data Accelerator Interface), a SNIA Technical Working Group(TWG) that aims to develop, extend, and drive an extensible, virtualizable, forward-compatible, memory to memory data movement and acceleration interface standard. He is the co-chair for the SDXI + Computational Storage Subgroup that envisions SDXI devices in a Computational Storage architecture and works to propose Computational Storage features to the SDXI standard. Shyam was recognized with the “Excellence in Leadership” award by SNIA membership in 2022. Under his leadership, SDXI TWG won the “SNIA TWG of the Year” award in 2021 and the “Most Innovative Memory Technology” award at Flash Memory Summit(FMS) 2023 for SDXI specification v1.0."