Anjaneya “Reddy” Chagam is a Senior Principal Engineer and Lead Cloud Storage Architect in Intel’s Cloud and Enterprise Solutions Group.  He is responsible for developing software-defined storage strategy, architecture, and platform technology initiatives.  He is a board member in Ceph and SODA Linux Foundation projects and co-leads Open System Firmware project in OCP.  He was instrumental in initiating and gaining consensus among storage vendors to launch SODA Linux Foundation project. He is a Chief Architect responsible for delivering storage software optimizations for Intel platforms. He is a regular speaker at major industry conferences, including Storage Developer Conference, Flash Memory Summit, OCP, Linux Foundation conferences. He earned an MS in computer science from Arizona State University.