Shyam Iyer

Shyam Iyer is a Distinguished Engineer in Dell's Chief Technology Office experienced in Researching, Designing, Developing, Debugging, Validating, Leading, and Driving System and Software solutions that have an industry-wide impact. With 50+ granted patents and several patent pending applications, 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, security architectures, etc. He works on a variety of forward-looking concepts and strategies in Dell’s technical leadership community.

He regularly presents/reviews solutions internally and externally with C-level execs, customers, and developer-oriented audiences. Shyam writes code/reviews them for relief and enjoys a healthy smattering of technical and business-oriented discussions.

Among his SNIA activities, Shyam is the Chair for SDXI (Smart Data Accelerator Interface), a SNIA Technical Working Group(TWG) that aims to develop, extend, and drive an extensible, virtualizable, forward-compatible, memory to memory data movement and acceleration interface standard. He is the co-chair for the SDXI + Computational Storage Subgroup that envisions SDXI devices in a Computational Storage architecture and works to propose Computational Storage features to the SDXI standard.