David Slik

David Slik is a data storage researcher at the Huawei Canadian Research Institute. Before working at Huawei, he was a Technical Director at NetApp and a co-founder of ByCast, where he led the development of StorageGRID. He has 20+ years of experience in the design, development and productization of high-performance distributed storage systems, resulting in over 75 granted patents. David is an author of two ISO/IEC standards, a contributor in five other storage industry standards organizations, and chairs the Cloud Storage Technical Working Group at SNIA.