Jean Charles Lopez, a Senior Solutions Architect at Red Hat, has been in the field of storage for over 30 years. He has dealt with the challenges of each era over different operating systems and in different environments—from OpenStack to OpenShift. He likes to share his passion for storage while promoting open source solutions.

Lopez has been continuously working with Ceph since 2013. He has authored Ceph courseware and spoken at events such as the Open Infrastructure Summit, Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA) and Massive Storage Systems and Technology Conference (MSST).