Joseph Chamdani
CTO and Co-founder, Kickfire

Dr. Joseph Chamdani is an accomplished technologist. Prior to founding Kickfire, he was co-founder, Chief Systems Architect, and VP Systems Integration at Sanera Systems, which was later acquired by McDATA. At Sanera and McDATA, Joe led the architecture design for the high-end switching systems and fabric-based storage virtualization and services using hardware acceleration. Before Sanera, he was the lead architect for Sun Microsystems’ UltraSPARC IIIplus and UltraSPARC IV microprocessors for their high-end SMP servers, with a focus on improving database performance. He received his Ph.D from Georgia Tech and currently holds 28 issued patents in domains relating to computer architecture, microprocessors, compilers, networking, storage, and circuit design.