<div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 13px;color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px">Dear Dr. Choi and Dr. Kim,</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 13px;color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px">I'm writing to express interest in serving as a reviewer or program committee member for HotStorage '27. I understand you both chaired HotStorage '26, but I would appreciate any guidance on how to nominate for next year's committee.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 13px;color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px">I'm a Staff Software Engineer on the Storage team at Crusoe (AI infrastructure/GPU cloud), where I work on S3-compatible object storage, distributed block and file systems, and storage benchmarking for AI training and inference workloads. Previously at AWS, I led the re-architecture of the Dynamic Partitioning system for Kinesis Data Firehose.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 13px;color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px">I've served on the AEC for FAST '27, NSDI '27, EuroSys '27, ATC '26, CGO '27, and SIGCOMM '26 over the past year.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 13px;color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px">My current work closely aligns with HotStorage's focus: I'm developing evaluation methodologies that go beyond throughput-focused benchmarks like MLPerf Storage and DLIO to capture checkpoint I/O burstiness, metadata scalability, and S3 API compatibility edge cases. Separately, I am exploring RDMA-based object storage and tier-0 caching to reduce checkpoint latency for GPU training. </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 13px;color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px">Attached is my <a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.sethihemant.com%2fHemantSethiResume.pdf&c=E,1,KkUNcXXR0aKPcdzv6AM7KDGKYz8lpgaSnt9RGYdhQIQOeeLICgfirXvTYZdaTZvSDViqXFlaFvtDyqWi2K1rrXNlkgs5fS5As98JX7YYCrfFGxM,&typo=1">CV</a> and <span style="background-color:transparent">areas of <a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fsethihemant.com%2fresearch&c=E,1,N-mvWD4_HNHTkOuWnsDIAh46Sus0DHIT3L6r9FN71wQjxHTB48OPnNGryfntY5auZdasLmpBBC-7RK_08V4QMD6dKBd5xIdmFahP-Qrh4A,,&typo=1">interest</a>.</span></p><p class="gmail-sig" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 13px;color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px">Best regards,<br style="box-sizing:border-box">Hemant Sethi<br style="box-sizing:border-box">Staff Software Engineer, Storage<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/hemantsethi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(44,95,138);text-decoration:none">linkedin.com/in/hemantsethi</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.sethihemant.com%2f&c=E,1,CJSbSMLYQpCXMkGLap12lv7X2ylg0UbWpaXkRi-Db6TtwpR6W5WaSJ7Z5g8TpJJzwoW2Rw-GQwGBOP74OL0yGx_mzoT1NwhXRegLFeN7tsK9XRFN&typo=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(44,95,138);text-decoration:none">sethihemant.com</a></p></div>