Patrick Donnelly is a senior software engineer at Red Hat, Inc. currently leading the global development team working on the open-source Ceph distributed file system. Patrick has been a speaker at several events presenting recent work on Ceph, including Cephalocon APAC, various Openstack Summits, CERN, and Vault Linux Storage & Filesystems Conference. In 2016 he completed his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Notre Dame with a dissertation on the topic of file transfer management in active storage cluster file systems.