Ugur Kaynar
Distinguished Engineer, Storage Technologist - Storage CTO At Dell at Dell Technologies
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolUgur Kaynar is a Distinguished Engineer and Storage Technologist at Dell, specializing in architecting high-performance storage solutions for large-scale AI workloads and driving storage–compute co-design across the Dell AI Data Platform. With a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Boston University focused on distributed caching for object storage, he blends deep research experience with product-driven engineering to optimize storage connectors, protocols, and end-to-end I/O pipelines. He leads strategic open-source collaboration and represents Dell on industry bodies such as MLCommons MLPerf Storage and SNIA Storage.AI, shaping standards and test tooling for cloud object storage. Known for accelerating AI inference through low-latency, scalable data paths, he also brings hands-on experience from Red Hat’s Ceph team and systems research at MOC Alliance. Based in Boston and active in the open ecosystem, he pairs academic rigor with pragmatic delivery to enable next-generation AI infrastructure. A less obvious strength is his consistent focus on measurable system-level improvements—translating novel storage research into production-ready performance gains.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Information Systems Engineering (Dual Degree), Bachelor of Science (BSc) Information Systems Engineering (Dual Degree) at Boğaziçi UniversityMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Binghamton UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Boston University
English, Turkish
Github Skills (62)
infiniband10
glusterfs10
kubernetes10
libgit210
fat10
citrix10
rdma10
filemaker10
iscsi10
nfs10
fuse10
openebs10
storage10
blob-storage10
hdfs10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ekaynar/ekaynar.github.io
Feb 2018 - Jul 2022
Contributions:98 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
ekaynar/ceph-master
Apr 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:152 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 10 months
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