Patrick Caporale is a Principal Engineer responsible for I/O Architecture within the Infrastructure Solutions Group at Lenovo. He has over 20 years of experience within the server, storage, and networking product groups at IBM and Lenovo. During his career, he has been responsible for various projects that delivered I/O solutions for the data center, including Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and Infiniband products. Patrick current role is as Chief I/O Architect for Lenovo systems, leading a team of engineers to deliver the latest generation of data center products. Prior to joining Lenovo in 2014, Patrick worked at IBM where he held various technical & architecture roles within product development for the server, storage, and networking business units. Patrick holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Manhattan College and a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University.