Presenter

Ellis Wilson is a principal software engineer manager on the Azure Managed Lustre Filesystem team at Microsoft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2021, he spent a decade at Panasas as a software architect working on the PanFS parallel filesystem and associated storage appliance. He received his PhD in computer science from The Pennsylvania State University under Mahmut Kandemir, having presented a dissertation focused on NAND flash firmware technology, parallel filesystems, and multi-protocol filesystem interactions.