Mohamad El-Batal is the Seagate Cloud Storage Group (CSG) Chief Technologist. Mohamad holds a BS degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and did Graduate work on Digital Signal Processing in 1990 from the University of Colorado at Boulder. In his career Mohamad charted new grounds in various fields of enterprise and modern cloud datacenter storage architectures that spanned from SSD controller silicon to FTL FW, system architectures and software solutions.