David Landsman

Dave Landsman is Director of Industry Standards and a Distinguished Engineer at Western Digital, where he manages storage standards across Western Digital’s businesses. Dave has been an active technical member in storage standards since 2008, representing SanDisk and, post-merger, Western Digital, making contributions to NVMe, PCI-SIG, JEDEC, SATA-IO, T10, T13, SNIA, SFF, and others. He is currently WD’s board representative for NVMe, SNIA, and the DNA Data Storage Alliance. Dave has over 35 years of experience in the technology/semiconductor industry, having spent a “first career” at Intel, and “second career” at msystems/SanDisk/WD, with a brief hiatus at a startup in between. He earned a BA in computer science from the University of California, San Diego.