Srikant Varadan

Srikant Varadan is a Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, where he leads initiatives at the intersection of AI and data infrastructure. His current work focuses on transforming storage into a first-class enabler of AI workloads, integrating semantic indexing and real-time metadata extraction with next generation storage architectures. With over 20 years of experience spanning block storage, distributed file systems, and object stores, he brings a strategic lens on how storage layers can accelerate inference and agentic reasoning. He holds 12 patents in the areas of data storage and networking.