Board Election

OpenSFS Board nominations and elections are conducted in adherence with the OpenSFS bylaws and OpenSFS handbook. The Board nomination process was facilitated by the Nomination Committee and the nomination period closed on March 3, 2023.

The primary contact for each OpenSFS Member company is eligible to vote for in the Board election. An online ballot will be sent directly to OpenSFS primary contacts to facilitate the voting process. Election results will be announced during the virtual OpenSFS Member Meeting on May 2, 2023.

The following Board positions and candidates are participating in the 2023 election:


President (Term: Two years and then two years as Director-At-Large)

The President shall be the chief executive officer of the Corporation and shall have general supervision over the affairs to the Corporation, subject, however, to the control of the Board. The President shall, if present, preside at all Annual Meetings, and at all meetings of the Board. In general, the President shall perform all the duties incident to the office of the chief executive officer of a corporation and such other duties as are provided for by these Bylaws and as from time to time may be assigned to the President by the Board.

Candidates: Dustin Leverman

Dustin hails from Littleton, Colorado but has called Knoxville, Tennessee home since he moved there in 2009 to begin his career at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). During his time at the lab, he has served as a storage systems engineer, a team leader in the HPC and Data Operations Group, and is currently the group leader for HPC Storage and Archive. Dustin credits his tenure at ORNL to the incredible people, mission, and exciting technologies he has the opportunity to interact with every day. Outside of work Dustin enjoys working on home projects, running, and spending time with his dog, Gracie.

Candidate Statement:

My name is Dustin Leverman and am currently the HPC Storage and Archive group leader at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. I have been using Lustre since Lustre-1.6 was released around 2008 and have designed, deployed, accepted, and decommissioned dozens of Lustre storage resources since that time. Oak Ridge National Laboratory has operated and deployed Lustre at leadership scale for over 20 years and is dedicated to long-term sustainment of the filesystem. I think my experience in working with the Lustre Working Group (LWG) as co-chair to discuss features, releases, and outstanding Lustre bugs, my appreciation of open-sourced software, my support from my organization, and my experience in the full lifecycle Lustre file systems will help me to enhance the Lustre community as the OpenSFS board president.

Candidates: Megan Larko

I have been involved in Linux High Performance Computing (HPC) for decades starting at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD and continuing in the U.S. DoD environment with SGI at Aberdeen Proving Ground, and HP (now HPE) at Ft. Meade, both in Maryland.  I am a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, and joke that I also attended the college of “O’Reilly and Associates” based upon the knowledge I have gained reading books from that publisher.   I have had Linux certifications from SAIR (one of the original Linux certs), RH, and CompTIA, and even “Lustre Administration and Support: Level One” dated July 2008 from Sun.  I enjoy my career as well as a few hobbies such as running and dog training.   I currently reside in western Pennsylvania, with my beloved spouse and goldendoodle mix.

Candidate Statement:

My name is Megan Larko.  I have been configuring and using Lustre since 2008.  I am currently working HPC services with Translucent Services, LLC.  I fully believe in user empowerment.  I believe that includes choice in software configuration and user ability to get information about his/her own files in storage.   Lustre Parallel File System provides these benefits and more.   As a President of the OpenSFS Board of Directors, I would like to continue supporting Lustre as a world-class, enterprise shared file system through adoption and feature enhancement, and to educate and promote Lustre as a first-choice in parallel, high-speed, shared storage software.


Treasurer (Term: Two Years)

The Treasurer shall collect, and keep account of all moneys received and expended for the use of the Corporation. The Treasurer shall deposit sums received by the Corporation in the name of the Corporation in such depositories as shall be approved by the Board; prepare appropriate financial reports for review by the Board; and be a member of the Finance Committee.

Candidates: Leo Saavedra

Leonardo Saavedra (a.k.a Leo), I am a Senior HPC Storage Systems Analyst at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Berkeley Lab (LBNL), where I work as a member of the Storage Systems Group. My interests include parallel file systems, mass storage and Linux system administration. My career in HPC began at NRAO as system engineer maintaining and deploying new Lustre file systems for the observatory. I’ve been working with Lustre since 2017 with work including Lustre administration, file system performance tuning, and improving user performance for high-performance computing applications.

Candidate Statement:

My interest in serving the Lustre community as Treasurer for OpenSFS is motivated by my experience of working with open source software since 1996. OSS has been part of my career as a student, and as a professional, and this is an opportunity to give back to the open source community with my experience. With the exascale computing era upon us I see Lustre positioned as a pillar upon which the next great advancements in science and research will be achieved. I’m a strong believer in having a high-quality, open-source parallel file system like Lustre and I would be honored to have your vote for Treasurer.