Dan is CTO for CLYSO, developing and supporting solutions with Ceph, open infrastructure, and cloud native products and services. Dan contributes to the open source Ceph Foundation and community as Executive Council Member since 2021 and Board Member since 2015. Previously Dan was Chief IT Architect at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) and introduced and managed Ceph there between 2013 to 2022. He has a PhD in distributed systems from the University of Victoria.