Sage Weil completed his Ph.D. working with Prof. Brandt on consistency protocols, data distribution (CRUSH), and the metadata manager in the Ceph distributed file system. He is the founder and chief architect of Ceph, a distributed storage platform. He also was the creator of WebRing, a co-founder of Los Angeles-based hosting company DreamHost, and the founder and CTO of Inktank. Weil now works for Red Hat as the chief architect of the Ceph project.