simplyblock enables a next-gen of data-intensive workloads
Single interface to all of your mission-cirtical systems and workloads
Simplyblock set off to build the next generation of high-performance data platform and solving the scalability issues for IO-heavy workloads, such as databases, data warehouses, document stores, blockchain storages, and similar data-intensive services. The technology is cloud- and Kubernetes-native, designed to run in all kinds of public and private cloud environments.
Origin Story
The idea for Simplyblock goes back to co-founder and CTO Michael Schmidt, who was frustrated with the complexity, inflexibility, performance, and pricing of existing storage solutions in the server market. Being a nuisance in the traditional data center market, it is a real concern in the wide world of cloud providers.
So he set off to develop a new storage cluster solution, based on the Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK), initially designed and open sourced by Intel®️, to simplify the daunting task of communicating to NVMe® devices. He got started, and added storage distribution, erasure coding, and remote access.
After working on simplyblock alone for a while, Robert joined him, and they decided to build a company around the new technology.
Together they started out looking for the first additional hires, bringing in additional experience for NVMe®️, distributed storage solutions, and many other areas. And in 2022, simplyblock was founded as a company, which many of the early contributors joined full-time. Brought together under the shared goal of solving container storage once and for all.



Robert Pankow
Co-Founder & CEO

Michael Schmidt
Co-Founder & CTO

Chris Engelbert
Chief Developer Advocate

Hamdy Khader
Team Lead Control Plane

Yevgueny V. Kondratyev
Storage Plane Engineer

Ruslan Laishev
Storage Plane Engineer

Dmitrii Iakovlev
Storage Plane Engineer

Alexander Sheredin
Control Plane Engineer

Israel Geoffrey
DevOps Engineer

Waleed Mousa
Test Engineer

Sangram Gaikwad
Storage Plane Engineer

Ashwin Rajnish
Storage Plane Engineer

Raunak Jalan
QA Engineer

Alireza Mahdavi
Team Lead Storage Plane

Sadegh Savari
Storage Plane Engineer

Anant Trivedi
DevOps Engineer

Frederik Schroder
GTM Advisor to the Board
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