Project Leads

Jeff is a staff software engineer on the platform security team at Google, with a focus on firmware integrity and attestation flows in data center environments.

Ahmad Byagowi is a Research Scientist focused on Time and Frequency Synchronization in Hyper Scale Networks. Ahmad received his first Ph.D. (Dr. Techn.) from Vienna University of Technology (TUWIEN) under the supervision of Prof. Peter Kopacek working on distributed control systems in 2010. Following that, Byagowi went to the University of Manitoba, initially as a Post Doc fellow working with Prof. Zahra Moussavi working on game engines and virtual reality systems. Due to his interest in the project, Byagowi started a second Ph.D. and finished it in 2016.

After that, Byagowi started working with Prof. Ramesh Raskar from the MIT Media Labs on haptic systems. This led him to Meta as a visiting scholar. He was impressed by the research there and decided to join Facebook in 2017. Byagowi still holds an Adjunct Professor title with the University of Manitoba.

In 2020 Ahmad started the OCP TAP with help of his colleagues to provide an open source solution for the time appliances in Datacenter environments. Shortly after, Ahmad came up with the design of the Time Card. With help of the community, Time Card became a reality. Today, Time Card is produced by many vendors. Ahmad is the chair of the IEEE P3335: Standard for Architecture and Interfaces for Time Card.

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Chief Technologist for Cloud in DCAI. Peer+1 to a highly matrixed architecture team focused on Cloud Service Provider technologies, usage models, and solution architectures. Responsible for mapping existing and emerging customer workloads to system level architecture needs, supporting internal product and technology planning and pathfinding, as well as external disclosure, feedback & evangelization. Over 20 years in server component development, most of it spent on chipset projects and their associated technologies. Parent of a grade-schooler, and lapsed avid golfer.

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Jeff Hilland is a Principal Architect at Intel responsible for manageability and industry standards. Jeff served as VP of Technology for DMTF for 6 years before being appointed President of DMTF. Jeff has served in various leadership roles in DMTF since 2003, including chair of the Executive Committee, Technical Committee, Platform Subcommittee and co-chair of both the SPDM Working Group, Server Management Work Group and the Desktop & Mobile Work Groups. Jeff is one of the chief architects behind Redfish and contributed significantly to SMASH, DASH, PMCI and SPDM. Jeff has also served in chairing roles in the Gen-Z Consortium, RDMA Consortium and the InfiniBand Trade Association. Additionally, he has participated in industry initiatives including OCP, UAL and UEC.

Jeff's 45-plus year career in the computing industry includes systems and server management, management protocols, data modeling, security, distributed systems architecture, system software integration, automated deployment & configuration tool development, operating system kernel & device drivers and services architecture & development as well as performance analysis. It has also included contributions to high-speed interconnect and communications technology development & standardization including RDMA, CXL, UEC, Gen-Z, InfiniBand and the Virtual Interface Architecture.

Saket is an expert in developing thermal solutions at both the data center and system level. He has extensive experience in assessing numerous data centers and providing recommendations to improve efficiency and reduce stranded capacity. As a manager of a team of thermal engineers at Hyve Solutions, he provided design inputs for compute and storage platforms, contributing significantly to the success of the company. Currently, as a part of the Technical Strategy team at Meta, Saket is exploring advanced technologies that are not only efficient but also environmentally less disruptive.

James joined the OCP Foundation staff in 2024 as VP Market Intelligence and Innovation, working with technology leaders in the community and augmenting the foundation’s marketing. His contributions to the OCP proceed from over two decades of experience in technology research, engineering, product management and marketing.

Steven Moore is the Project Lead of Rack and Power for OCP.

He is also the Global Account Manager of OEM accounts for Rittal, mainly dealing with Hyper Scale customers.

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Lead Estimator - Datacenters at Microsoft, brings an 9-year track record in mission-critical construction, encompassing life sciences, pharmaceuticals, data centers, and hospital construction. His expertise spans both general contractor and owner roles, with a keen focus on managing preconstruction for colocation and hyperscale projects. He currently serves on the Technical Advisory Board of Mission Critical Magazine. An avid researcher, Vivek has contributed to the body of knowledge on water and stormwater infrastructure through published journal and conference papers. His commitment extends beyond his professional endeavors as he dedicates time to mentor up-and-coming talent in the construction workforce and advises construction tech startups. Vivek holds a master’s degree in civil engineering.

Alex is the Sustainability Lead for the Cloud & Service Provider segment at Schneider Electric. Prior to Schneider, Alex was on the team that established the North American microgrid business at Hitachi, and worked as an environmental and energy consultant for the National Park Service. He is the author of the book "Energy Resilient Buildings and Communities," from CRC Press, and the upcoming "Powering Through: A Professional Guide for Energy Resilience," which in partially dedicated to data center resilience strategies. He earned a B.A. in Environmental Science from Cornell University, and an M.S. from Johns Hopkins University in Economics.

Anu Ramamurthy has worked in the semiconductor industry for over 25 years. She is currently an Associate Fellow, Design at Microchip Technology. Her current interests lie in the area of advanced packaging and heterogeneous integration. This includes all aspects of the ecosystem, starting with the technology, packaging, architecture, test, system integration and cost modelling of such designs. She is very active with the OCP - Open Domain Specific Architecture subgroup.

Anu is also very interested in mentoring women in engineering, has been part of the TechWomen program run by the U.S State department and also actively involved in the mentoring programs at Microchip.

Vlad Sahnovich has more than 20 years of experience in industry, mainly focusing on embedded systems of different scales. Currently Vlad is managing a team at Google responsible for Rack and Machines management, including power, health and cooling. 

Vlad is focusing on improving data centers efficiency and productivity.

Professor Poh Seng (PS) Lee is the Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Executive Director of the Energy Studies Institute (ESI). He also serves as Coordinating Director of NUS Energy Solutions Hub (NESH), and Co-Director of NUS Sustainable Futures (NSF) and Singapore Energy Consortium (SEC).

A thought leader on thermal management, green data centers, and energy sustainability, Professor Lee’s research centers on advanced cooling technologies, sustainable computing infrastructure, and energy-efficient systems. His pioneering contributions to liquid cooling, alternative cooling techniques, and digital infrastructure decarbonization have garnered international recognition.

To date, he has secured over SGD 25 million in research funding, published more than 200 papers, and co-led major initiatives such as the Sustainable Tropical Data Centre Testbed (STDCT). A sought-after expert, Professor Lee regularly serves as keynote speaker and panelist at global forums on AI-driven infrastructure, sustainable cooling, and energy resilience.

He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and has been honored with multiple accolades, including Fellowships from ASME and IES.

Scott Sharp is a Staff Mechanical Engineer and global program engineering lead for third party data centers at Google. Scott is also the co-project lead for the OCP Ready work stream within OCP. During his tenure at Google, he has supported internal infrastructure as well as third party data centers.

Before joining Google, he worked as a consulting mechanical engineer supporting a number of different clients and industries (pharmaceutical, commercial, mission critical, heavy industrial, etc.).

Scott holds a bachelor’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Masters of Science in Mechanical Engineering, and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln (UNL). He also holds a professional engineering license in a handful of states.

Sean Sivapalan is a Principal Engineer who has dedicated over 6 years to scaling data center liquid technologies from chip to facility level. He joined Nvidia in 2023 and is currently a Principal Materials Engineer for the Data Center Engineering team. Prior to Nvidia, he worked for Meta and Intel Corporation on advanced data center cooling technologies. In 2021, while at Intel, he was introduced to the Open Compute Project. While serving as the Advanced Cooling Solutions Sub-Project Lead, Sean was part of the team that formed the Fluid Serviceability and Maintenance workstream to accelerate the adoption of cold plate based liquid cooling in data centers. He has contributed to several publications both within OCP and to the ASHRAE T.C 9.9 community on data center liquid cooling. Since 2022, Sean has served as the co-lead for the Cooling Environment Project at OCP.

Harry Soin is a Senior Director of Technical marketing at Advanced Energy. He has previously held various design and leadership positions over 35 years with the company. He managed AEI’s China Design Engineering facility in Shenzhen, China before relocating to San Jose, California. Harry has technical marketing responsibilities of AEI’s Hyperscale portfolio. Harry holds a Master’s of Power Electronics degree from University of Toronto, Canada and Bachelor of Electronics from College of Engineering, Pune India.

Harry is an active member of OCP Rack and Power as well as Immersion work streams. He has participated and presented at various Regional and Global summits. Harry was currently co leading Power distribution in Immersion track prior to taking on the role of the co-lead of Rack and Power work stream.

Ross Stenfort is a Hardware System Engineer at Sandisk delivering scalable storage solutions.  He has been involved in development of storage systems, SSDs, ROCs, HBAs and HDDs with many successful products and over 40 patents.  He has storage experience in both large and small companies including CNEX, Seagate, LSI, SandForce, SiliconStor and Adaptec.  He has a B.S. in Electronic Engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

I am a Distinguished Engineer on the Architecture team in the Cloud and Emerging Technologies (CET) group at Dell Technologies. I've been at Dell for 30 years and have 30 patents granted in Desktop, Workstation, and Server design.

At OCP, I've been a Project lead of the Server Project since August 2014 working on the original Decathlete and OCP MEZZ specifications. We’ve come a long way since then and I’m excited about the opportunity to continue leading the OCP Server Project along with our NIC, OAI, HPC, ODSA, DC-SCM, CMS and future sub-projects.

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Scientific Leader in Data Centers, Adjunct Professor in Fluid Mechanics at Lulea Technical University in Sweden and a Visiting Professor to the Institute of Thermofluids at the University of Leeds in the UK.

During the last 25 years, Jon has worked on a number of government and industry-funded projects requiring the use of computation. Having built and managed compute clusters to support many research projects, he chaired the High Performance Computing User Group for 20 years at the University of Leeds. In the last eight years, his research has focused on a range of thermal management and energy flow projects within the Data Centre, Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning and industrial sectors.

Since early 2013 1 he has been involved in liquid cooled IT research projects, focusing both at the data centre and the microprocessor scales, which has been further transformed by the opportunities of integrated digital infrastructure research at RISE. His current research focuses on thermal and energy management of microelectronic systems, which has led to many invited talks around the globe within the data centre community.

Ravindra is a part of Meta's networking team responsible for the development of FBOSS, the software that powers Meta's disaggregated open networking systems. Ravindra has been developing software for over 25 years in networking technologies such as P4, DCB, FCOE, MPLS-TE, and ATM switching at companies such as Barefoot Networks, Cisco Systems, Tellabs, and FORE Systems.