Shyamkumar Iyer

Shyam is a Distinguished Engineer in Dell's Office of CTO experienced in Researching, Designing, Developing, Debugging, Validating, Leading, and Driving System and Software solutions that have an industry-wide impact. With 40+ granted 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, etc. 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. Shyam is also the Chair for SDXI (Smart Data Accelerator Interface), an SNIA TWG which aims to develop, extend, and drive an extensible, virtualizable, forward-compatible, memory to memory data movement and acceleration interface standard.