Simon Lund
Principal Engineer at Samsung Electronics
Frederiksberg Municipality, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Lund is a Principal Engineer with 17 years of experience focused on making emerging storage interfaces practical for developers, currently driving the xNVMe project at Samsung. He holds a PhD from the University of Copenhagen on high-performance backends for array-oriented programming and has a track record of bridging high-level abstractions with low-level control in both academia and industry. Simon previously designed liblightnvm at CNEX Labs and contributes to influential open-source storage projects like SPDK, adding NVMe and Zoned Namespace support that improved real-world tooling such as fio. He frequently presents on compiler and interpreter design for HPC and storage, and combines deep systems knowledge with API design to quantify costs and benefits of architectural choices. Based in Copenhagen, he brings a rare blend of research rigor and production-hardened engineering across SSD/ NVMe ecosystems.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at Københavns Universitet / University of CopenhagenMaster of Science (MSc), Master of Science (MSc) at Universitetet i Tromsø / University of Tromsø (UiT)
Github Skills (7)
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c1110
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
spdk/spdk
Jun 2020 - Sep 2022
Storage Performance Development Kit
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 26 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the SPDK (Storage Performance Development Kit) project by implementing and improving NVMe-related features. Their work focused on handling different I/O Command Sets, including adding support for Zoned Namespaces (ZNS) within the fio plugin. They also addressed performance issues and implemented fixes related to zone resets, ensuring the plugin functions correctly. The contributions involved modifying NVMe specifications, adding accessors, and enhancing the examples to incorporate ZNS functionality and related constraints, which improved the overall functionality and user experience.
development-kitvagrantperformancestoragevirtualbox
refenv/cijoe-pkg-lightnvm
Apr 2019 - Oct 2024
Contributions:16 pushes, 4 branches, 7 tags in 5 years 7 months
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