Shyamkumar Iyer

Distinguished Engineer in Dell's Office of CTO experienced at Researching, Designing, Developing, Debugging, Validating, Leading, and Driving System and Software solutions that have an industry-wide impact. Experienced in leading research concepts that turn into industry-first products or influence roadmaps significantly. With 52 granted patents and 18 pending, 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, etc.

Shyam is also the Chair for SDXI (Smart Data Accelerator Interface), a SNIA TWG which aims to develop, extend, and drive an extensible, virtualizable, forward-compatible, memory to memory data movement and acceleration interface standard and the SDXI+CS subgroup that envisions SDXI in Computational Storage architectures. He also represents Dell in SNIA's Technical Council as an elected member.