John D. Davis has a Ph.D. from Stanford focusing on computer architecture. His research interests include computer architecture, large-scale computing systems, embedded systems, non-volatile memory, application behavior and performance tuning, and hardware-software co-design and interaction. John spent several years at the Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley Lab. John then joined Pure Storage as part of the founding team for the FlashBlade product. Currently, John is part of the CTO’s office at Pure Storage.