Johann Lombardi is a senior principal engineer in the Cloud & Enterprise Solution Group (CESG) at Intel. He started to work on Lustre in 2003 and led the sustaining team in charge of the Lustre file system worldwide support for more than 5 years. He then transitioned to research programs (Fast Forward, ESSIO, CORAL & Path Forward) to lead the development of a storage stack for Exascale HPC, Big Data and AI called DAOS.