Piotr Modrzyk


Principal Architect
Leil Storage

A renowned expert in software-defined storage, with years of experience building scalable and efficient systems for a variety of industries. His background includes working at Google, where he gained invaluable insights into large-scale distributed systems. Also, he is a founder and creator of LizardFS - open-sourced, distributed, scalable, and fault-tolerant file system. LizardFS a was successful clone of GoogleFS with the POSIX interface and other perks like erasure coding. Today, he brings his expertise to Leil Storage, where he helps to create green cloud storage for backup and archive by exploring the advantages of host-managed SMR drives.