Steering Committee

Harsha Bojja is an AI/ML Platform Technical Lead at Google. Prior to his current role, Harsha has worked at Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Bell Labs, and a few other startups on the Data Center, Telecommunications space supporting Product Development, Rack & Power, and Thermal Management. He is an active member of various IEEE, ASME, Sigma Xi societies and is looking forward to contributing to the OCP community. 

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I build and research computer systems. I am the Horizontal Lead for platform Security and the Tech Lead for system software at Google's Technical Infrastructure group. I have led memory management, kernel release, and production mitigation of black swans, including Meltdown and Spectre. I co-founded GridCentric, a virtualization startup, acquired in 2014. From January 2010 to October 2011 I worked in AT&T Labs Research, publishing a number of first-tier academic papers. I got my PhD and MSc from University of Toronto. I got the NSERC Doctoral Prize for 2010, the Eurosys best paper award for 2009, and an NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship. I got my undergrad in Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahia Blanca, Argentina

John has over 35 years in the computer industry: architecting, designing and coding. Currently, John is a Principal Engineer and a system manageability architect in Intel's datacenter platform group. John has been a member of the DMTF (dmtf.org) standards body since 2004 and has authored numerous specifications. An original member of the Redfish Forum, John chairs work groups modeling firmware update and composability. Since John has been OCP's SC Rep to the HW Management Project, the project has established subproject and workstream for rack management, HW fault management, OCP profiles and System GPU management. The profile workstream has worked with other OCP workstreams to prescribe manageability for platforms, power devices, cooling devices (e.g. CDUs), and rack management. John authored the system management section of the "Open Systems for AI" whitepaper contribution within OCP.

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Steve Mills is a Mechanical Engineer who has dedicated over 25 years to the development of IT hardware in the enterprise and hyperscale space. He joined META in 2012 and is currently a Technical Lead for Data Center and Hardware Interfaces. Prior to META, he worked for Storspeed and DELL Technologies. In 2012, while at Dell Technologies developing custom solutions for hyperscale clients, he was introduced to the Open Compute Project. Since then, he has been a champion of OCP. He served as Project Lead in the Rack & Power Project for 5 years before moving to the OCP Incubation Committee where he now represents the Cooling Environments Project. He has 48 US patents and author of 8 contributions to OCP.

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Sean Varley is the Chief Evangelist and leader of ecosystem development and partner programs
at Ampere Computing. His group is responsible for go-to-market, messaging, strategy and execution of
developer, partner and revenue ecosystem growth programs. The team covers marketing strategy,
strategic business relationships, business planning and developer recruitment for AI Computing in the
rapidly evolving Cloud and Edge server markets. At Ampere, our goal is to provide Products and
Solutions that showcase the disruptive advantage our unique processors provide to AI and traditional
computing markets. We elegantly integrate Cloud Native SW and HW that help our customers
understand and use our products to drastically transform their AI computing investments into highly
efficient, high performance, and imminently sustainable service infrastructures.

Dong Wei is a Standards Architect and Fellow at Arm. He leads the Arm SystemReady Program. He has significant experience in leading the industry in innovations and standardizations and is a staunch supporter for open source development in Tianocore EDK2, UBoot, LinuxBoot, OpenBMC and Trusted Firmware. He is the Vice President (Chief Executive) of the UEFI Forum and co-chairs its ACPI Working Group. He is a Board member of the PCI SIG and co-chairs its Firmware/Software Working Group. He is a Board member and the Secretary of the CXL Consortium.  He is a Senior Member of IEEE.

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