Leadership Team
OFA Chair: Doug Ledford
Doug Ledford is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. He studied Computer Sciences at Southwest Missouri State University, where he was introduced to Linux back when it only ran from floppy discs. Doug led the team that built one of Springfield Missouri's first Internet Service Providers, utilizing Linux for all of the servers. He became the defacto maintainer of the aic7xxx SCSI driver, and then a member of the Linux Maintenance Project. Now working for Red Hat. Doug has worked in a number of different areas in the Linux kernel, including SCSI drivers, SCSI mid layer, audio drivers, network drivers, MD software RAID, and the RDMA stack in the Linux kernel as well as the user space portion of the RDMA stack. Doug is currently an upstream maintainer of the Linux kernel's RDMA stack and of the rdma-core user space project as well as a Red Hat Subject Matter Expert for the MD software RAID stack and the RDMA stack.
Phil Cayton, Vice Chair
Phil Cayton is a Senior Staff Engineer for Intel with 25 years of industry experience researching and developing networking, storage, and datacenter infrastructure technologies. In addition to his current role with Open Fabrics Alliance, he is actively involved with the Storage Networking Industry Association and the NVM ExpressTM Consortium. He has been involved with InfiniBandTM since the beginning and has written many RDMA-based drivers including the initial prototype NVMe-over-Fabrics driver stack. Additionally, he has led remote peer-to-peer memory projects, Open Fabrics testing and patching, dynamic data center energy efficiency R&D, server autonomics R&D, mobile-device multi-radio interference mitigation, mobile augmented reality, sensor enhanced personal medical monitoring, and network driver development projects. He has several published whitepapers and 20 granted patents. In his spare time he is an avid sailor.
Treasurer : John Byrne
John Byrne is a Research Engineer at HPE in Hewlett Packard Labs. He began writing device drivers on PDP-11s for image processing systems, in a time when 1 MiB of DRAM for a frame buffer was considered impressive. This focus on low-level software continued has continued since then: writing drivers and firmware for new hardware; learning the Linux process, VM, and VFS subsystems to implement Single System Image clustering; and, for the past few years, the focus has been on the HPC networking and developing a libfabric provider and driver for prototype hardware brought him into the OFA’s orbit.
OFA Secretary: Michael Aguilar
Michael Aguilar is a Senior Computer Scientist for HPC Research and Development at Sandia National Laboratories, working with both Capacity Computing and Advanced Architecture Testbeds. Michael is responsible for management of Sandia’s ARM64 HPC systems, including Astra, and is active with the OpenFabrics Alliance, as the Board Secretary. He is currently serving as Chair of the OpenFabrics Management Framework (OFMF) Working Group. In addition, Michael is involved in Sandia Labs BeeGFS research and development. Michael has a Masters of Science degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering.
Enterprise Working Group Co-Chair: Robert J. Woodruff
Bob (Woody) Woodruff is a senior software technologist and engineering manager for Intel Corporation working in the cluster and software technologies group specializing in HPC interconnect software and related HPC and OS system software. Bob has 30 years of industry experience in OS and system software development working for Intel Corporation, Cray Research, and Floating Point Systems . Bob has been involved with the Open Fabrics software development since the formation of OFA.
OFI Working Group Chair: Sean Hefty
Sean Hefty has 25 years of industry experience at Intel, focused on high-performance networking. He was involved in InfiniBand at its inception, and is a long time contributor and maintainer of OpenFabrics software, both for Linux and Windows systems. He is the lead architect and maintainer behind Open Fabrics Interfaces' libfabric. In addition to working at Intel, he taught at Oregon Tech for 15 years, focusing on database systems, computer networking, and information technology. He holds advanced degrees in computer science and mathematics, and plays kazoo in a heavy metal band.
FSDP Co-Chair, Tatyana Nikolova
Tatyana is an Intel network software engineer specializing in RDMA drivers. Tatyana has been a contributing member of the OFA since 2012. She has a lot of experience driving Intel’s participation in the OFA logo event, including ensuring that current Intel Ethernet RDMA products meet the logo standards required by the OFA. Tatyana holds a BS degree in Computer Science from University of Washington, Bothell and an MS degree in Computer Science from University of Texas, Austin.
FSDP Co-Chair, Doug Ledford
Doug Ledford is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. He studied Computer Sciences at Southwest Missouri State University, where he was introduced to Linux back when it only ran from floppy discs. Doug led the team that built one of Springfield Missouri's first Internet Service Providers, utilizing Linux for all of the servers. He became the defacto maintainer of the aic7xxx SCSI driver, and then a member of the Linux Maintenance Project. Now working for Red Hat. Doug has worked in a number of different areas in the Linux kernel, including SCSI drivers, SCSI mid layer, audio drivers, network drivers, MD software RAID, and the RDMA stack in the Linux kernel as well as the user space portion of the RDMA stack. Doug is currently an upstream maintainer of the Linux kernel's RDMA stack and of the rdma-core user space project as well as a Red Hat Subject Matter Expert for the MD software RAID stack and the RDMA stack.
