Sven began his career at IBM in 1993, and has worked in multiple disciplines over the last 25 years. From Linux Virtualization, and Storage Virtualization to Filesystems, Sven led the team driving most of the performance improvements on Spectrum Scale (GPFS) over the last 10 years. As part of the core architecture team, Sven was responsible for metadata, streaming IO and specific analytics optimizations. Sven joined DDN in 2018 as Chief Research Officer driving innovation across DDN’s existing and future product portfolio.