John Griffith, Principal Software Engineer at SolidFire now a part of NetApp, helped to create the Cinder project in OpenStack. Primary responsibilities are upstream contributions to cloud related open source technologies. Currently active in Kubernetes Storage SIG, CNCF CSI project and various other communities.

John has over fifteen years of engineering experience in both hardware and software engineering. He’s been an active user and contributor to open source for over a decade. In addition to his technical contributions, John also spends a lot of his time talking to people who are interested in learning about various Cloud technologies as well as gathering feedback from current users.