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Monday, May 18 • 12:05pm - 12:45pm
A Conversation with Cinder Developers

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This session will provide a rare opportunity to meet with a number of the Cidner developers including Core team members.  We'll spend some time letting each panel member provide a brief intro to themeselves, why the contribute to OpenStack and Cinder, as well as share their vision for OpenStack and Cinder.

More importantly we'll provide a true "ask the experts" Q/A session, giving the audience an opportunity for members of the Operator community in the audience to share ideas and ask questions about Cinder as it is currently.
Speakers
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Jay Bryant

IBM Cinder Subject Matter Expert
Jay has worked for IBM since 2001 on Linux virtualization, supercomputing and storage related initiatives.  Jay started working with OpenStack during the Grizzly release and has been focussed on Cinder since Havana.  As the Cinder Subject Matter Expert for IBM's Cloud Division, Jay serves as the liason between the OpenStack Community and IBM's internal storage software development teams.  Jay has also been a member of Cinder's core... Read More →
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Patrick East

Software Engineer, Pure Storage
Patrick East is a member of Pure Storage's OpenStack team focusing on support for the Pure Storage FlashArray's within Cinder. Starting on the project for the Juno release Patrick has lead the Pure Storage OpenStack development efforts.
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John Griffith

Senior Software Engineer
John Griffith, Senior Software Engineer at SolidFire, helped to create the Cinder project in OpenStack.  His primary responsibility at SolidFire is technical contributor to OpenStack.  He served as Technical Lead for the Block Storage Project since it's beginning until the current Kilo release, and also holds an elected seat on the OpenStack Technical Committee. | John has over fifteen years of engineering experience in both hardware and... Read More →
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Walter A. Boring IV

Software Engineer at Hewlett-Packard, HP
Walt is a software engineer at Hewlett-Packard currently working in the Management and Solutions Development Unit focusing on storage systems enablement.   He has been working at Hewlett-Packard since 2007.  Since 2012, he has been working on OpenStack for HP enabling several of HP’s storage systems.  He became a core member of the OpenStack Cinder team in 2013 after co-authoring the Fibre Channel protocol support in OpenStack’s Nova... Read More →
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Sean McGinnis

Sr. Principal Software Engineer, Dell, Dell
Sean McGinnis is a software architect and project lead with the Dell Storage group. He focuses on enabling integration of Dell Storage capabilities with external systems to streamline the ease of use and availability of the various Dell storage offerings to meet application needs.
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Mike Perez

Developer Coordinator, OpenStack Foundation
Being a contributing member of OpenStack since 2010, Mike Perez has served as | a core developer for the OpenStack block storage project Cinder and as a PTL | for the Kilo and Liberty releases. During some of this time, he worked for | DreamHost in helping with their OpenStack public cloud, and helping with | integrating a variety of block storage solutions like Ceph and Datera. Today he | helps the OpenStack Foundation with seeing out the... Read More →
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Xing Yang

Consultant Technologist, Office of the CTO at EMC
Xing is a consultant technologist from the Office of the CTO at EMC. She has expertise in storage, data protection, disaster recovery, and cloud and virtualization technologies. Xing has been an OpenStack contributor since the Grizzly release and is a core member in Cinder and Manila.

Monday May 18, 2015 12:05pm - 12:45pm
Room 109
  Storage

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