Trevor Conn

Trevor Conn is a Distinguished Engineer at Dell Technologies based in Austin, Texas.1 He currently serves as the Research Lead for Digital Twins in the Dell Office of the CTO and assists in the design and delivery of distributed edge to cloud solutions.1

Professional Experience

Trevor has an extensive background in software engineering and has held several notable positions at Dell Technologies:

• Distinguished Engineer (January 2023 - Present): In this role, he is a member of the Advanced Hardware Lab in the CTO Research Office. His research focuses on the hardware/software interface for specialized and heterogeneous compute, particularly in the context of edge computing and software-defined infrastructure.1

• Director of Software Engineering (October 2019 - April 2021): He was responsible for commercial Edge research initiatives within Dell Technologies and served on the Technical Advisory Council and Governing Board for the Linux Foundation's LFEdge initiative.1

• Technical Staff Engineer (February 2018 - October 2019): Trevor served as the Core Working Group chair for the open-source IoT project EdgeXFoundry.1

Key Contributions and Expertise

Trevor Conn has made significant contributions to various projects and technologies:

• He is a principal architect and engineer on the open-source Project Alvarium.13
• He has extensive experience with technologies such as .NET (C#), Go, MQTT, Kafka, SQL Server, MongoDB, ASP.NET, NServiceBus, ElasticSearch, and RabbitMQ.1
• Trevor has worked on event-driven distributed SOA proof-of-concepts integrating real-world sensors for monitoring anomalous events.1
• He has been recognized for his innovations, receiving an Inventor Milestone Award in 2023.2

Trevor Conn is known for his expertise in IoT, edge computing, and open-source ecosystems. He has been a speaker at various technology conferences, sharing his knowledge on building open-source IoT ecosystems.45