Phil Cayton
Principal Engineer at OpenFabrics Alliance
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhil Cayton is a Principal Engineer with 11+ years in high-performance computing and AI infrastructure, based in Portland, Oregon, who drives architecture and open-ecosystem standards for scalable storage, fabric-agnostic management, and composable disaggregated infrastructures. At Intel he led development and standards work from first NVMe/RDMA transport prototypes to production NVMe-oF drivers and now steers industry efforts as a board director and workgroup co-chair across NVM Express, OpenFabrics Alliance, and SNIA initiatives. He blends deep kernel- and protocol-level engineering with systems-level thinking to connect containerized workloads to distributed resources, reducing idle hardware and energy waste in dynamic datacenter/HPC/AI environments. Notably, he has repeatedly translated research prototypes into award-winning, standards-based solutions that enable remote storage at scale and improve manageability across heterogeneous fabrics.
11 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Engineering, MS, Computer Engineering at Oregon Health & Science UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Oregon State University
English, Finnish
Github Skills (3)
kernel3
linux-kernel3
linux2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
OpenFabrics/sunfish_docs
Jan 2024 - Oct 2024
Documentation for the Sunfish Project
Contributions:4 reviews, 8 PRs, 11 pushes in 8 months
OpenFabrics/sunfish_library_reference
Dec 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:7 reviews, 1 PR, 2 comments in 9 months
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