Cloud infrastructure
10 data center liquid cooling experts
These ten engineers and engineering leaders have worked on data center liquid cooling at cloud providers, data center operators and cooling equipment makers. A reader can learn how liquid cooling engineers approach their work from people who have done it.
Professionals to explore
01—10Ali Chehade
LinkedInExperience: Head of R&D-Cooling · OVHcloud
Head of R&D for cooling at OVHcloud since 2017, based in Lille, where his profile says he leads thermal innovation and development of the company's proprietary liquid cooling technologies and has contributed to more than 100 patents. Former Cooling Expert (2017) and Data Centers Building and Cooling Engineer (2015-2017) at OVHcloud.
Amir Ibraheem
LinkedInExperience: Principal Mechanical Engineer, Data Centers Cooling · Schneider Electric
Principal Mechanical Engineer for data center cooling at Schneider Electric (2024-2026) and since 2026 a principal data center cooling solutions architect there, based in the Boston area. His profile describes him as a hyperscale data center liquid cooling expert. Former Associate - Senior Project Manager (Mechanical) at Mott MacDonald (2021-2024).
Christiaan Best
LinkedInExperience: CTO · Green Revolution Cooling
Former CTO of Green Revolution Cooling (2016-2017), an immersion cooling company, who describes himself as the original inventor of single-phase immersion cooling in data centers. The company later brought him back as a consultant on immersion cooling issues (2022-2025). Since 2025 he has been a director at Wesco.
Jason Lam
LinkedInExperience: Senior Applications Engineer · LiquidStack
Senior Applications Engineer at LiquidStack since 2025, based in the Manchester area, after serving there as Applications Engineer (2022-2024). Former Mechanical Engineer at NTT DATA (2021-2022). His profile cites more than ten years in data centre cooling solutions, specializing in the implementation of liquid cooling.
Jasper Kidger
LinkedInExperience: Head of ThermoFluids · Iceotope
Former Head of ThermoFluids at Iceotope (2020-2026), after serving there as Thermo-Fluids Engineer (2018-2020). His profile describes him as a thermofluids and computational fluid dynamics specialist for liquid cooling of IT equipment, with 25 years of experience in computational fluid dynamics. Since 2026 he has been a principal engineer at Vertiv.
Luis Castrillo
LinkedInExperience: R&D Engineer · Submer
Former R&D Engineer (2022-2024) and Thermal Engineer (2020-2022) at Submer. His profile describes him as a mechanical engineer specialized in data centre liquid cooling with almost a decade of experience developing and implementing solutions. Since 2024 he has been a senior technologist in advanced electrification research at bp.
Nicholas Gordon
LinkedInExperience: Liquid Cooling InfraOps Chief Engineer · Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Liquid Cooling InfraOps Chief Engineer at Amazon Web Services since 2026, after a Data Center Engineering Operations role at AWS in Hermiston, Oregon (2025-2026). Former Engineering Laboratory Technician (2017-2025) and Chemistry and Radiation Instructor (2023-2025) in the US Navy.
Shawn Deng
LinkedInExperience: Senior Liquid Cooling Engineer Operations Engineering Manager · Flex
Senior Liquid Cooling Engineer and operations engineering manager at Flex since 2026, based in Austin, with a headline covering server, rack and facility liquid cooling for AI and high-performance computing data centers. Before that he was a cooling system engineer and technical leader at Foxconn Industrial Internet USA and a thermal modeling engineer at Danfoss.
Swaminathan Vaidyanathan
LinkedInExperience: Senior Engineer, Data Center · LinkedIn
Former Senior Engineer, Data Center at LinkedIn (2025-2026), where his profile says he was the founding mechanical engineer for its high-density liquid cooling strategy and built its first liquid-cooled data halls, from a 120kW proof of concept to more than 20MW. Previously a data center mechanical field engineer at AWS; since 2026 a director at Nscale.
Ziping Wu
LinkedInExperience: Senior Liquid Cooling Quality Engineer · Microsoft
Senior Liquid Cooling Quality Engineer at Microsoft since 2024, based in New Taipei City. Before Microsoft he worked in thermal engineering and management at Wiwynn (2019-2024) and Foxconn (2014-2018), where his profile says he designed thermal solutions for cloud providers and worked with air, liquid and two-phase immersion cooling.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's side of the work to your question, since designing cooling products at an equipment maker, engineering liquid-cooled data halls for an operator and running liquid cooling in production are different jobs. Consider which cooling approach each person has worked with, such as immersion or direct-to-chip, and how recent that work is.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do engineering teams decide between immersion and direct-to-chip liquid cooling for a deployment?
- 02What changes in day-to-day data center operations when racks move to liquid cooling?
- 03How do cooling equipment makers and data center operators split design and testing work?
Reaching data center liquid cooling experts
How can I contact one of these data center liquid cooling experts?
Pick one of the 10 people on this page and choose "Book a paid call", or describe your project to find others. You offer a fee for a 15-minute call or a written answer, Instant Expert finds the person's work email and sends the invitation, and they decide whether to accept. The list covers 10 companies, including OVHcloud, Schneider Electric and Green Revolution Cooling, based on profile data retrieved on October 9, 2026. Being listed here doesn't mean someone has agreed to take calls.
How much does it cost to reach data center liquid cooling experts?
You choose the offer, starting at $5 per person. It includes Instant Expert's 20% fee, so an offer that pays the person $100 costs you $125. You're charged only when the person books the call or sends the answer.
What if they don't reply?
You pay nothing. Instant Expert sends follow-up reminders, and if the person hasn't booked or answered within 7 days, the request expires and any hold on your card is released. You can invite several of the 10 people on this list at once and cap your total spend, so you pay only for the ones who accept.
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