Matias Bjørling obtained a Ph.D. in operating systems and Solid State Drives from IT University of Copenhagen. He is currently a member of CNEX Labs technical staff. Before that, he worked with performance characterization of flash-based SSDs, operating- and database systems research and the multi-queue block layer. Matias is a contributor to the Linux Kernel and is the maintainer of the LightNVM subsystem for Open-Channel SSDs.