Behnam Eliyahu is an Application Engineer in the Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group (NSG). He responsible for technical enabling and support of flash storage (SSDs) and non-volatile memory and storage (Intel® Optane™) for EMEA customers. His responsibilities include escalation for field representatives, direct coverage of key customers, design-win activities, product trainings, support of product qualification and validation, support of solution development and sustaining support of SSDs after launch. He works with storage innovators/OEMs/ISVs to help driving the storage transition to PCI Express, NVMe-based 3D NAND flash products, Optane™, and supporting the ever expanding scale up and scale out storage needs. Prior to that, he was an enterprise SSD firmware team lead in NSG design center in Longmont, Colorado. His team developed the flash translation layer for both 2D and 3D NAND technologies for the PCIe product line.