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Simplification is the Technology Trend for 2016
December 21, 2015
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I am responsible at Amazon for driving the company’s technology vision, which is to continuously enhance the innovation on behalf of Amazon’s customers at a global scale.
Prior to joining Amazon, I worked as a researcher at the Computer Science Department at Cornell University where I was a principal investigator in several research projects that target the scalability and robustness of mission-critical enterprise computing systems. I have held positions of VP of Technology and CTO in companies that handled the transition of academic technology into industry.
I hold a Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and have authored many articles for journals and conferences, most of them on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing.
Specialties:Technology vision, ultra-scalable systems, highly reliable systems, enterprise computing, cloud computing, web architectures, service oriented systems, web services, operating systems
Prior to joining Amazon, I worked as a researcher at the Computer Science Department at Cornell University where I was a principal investigator in several research projects that target the scalability and robustness of mission-critical enterprise computing systems. I have held positions of VP of Technology and CTO in companies that handled the transition of academic technology into industry.
I hold a Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and have authored many articles for journals and conferences, most of them on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing.
Specialties:Technology vision, ultra-scalable systems, highly reliable systems, enterprise computing, cloud computing, web architectures, service oriented systems, web services, operating systems
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Dutch
German
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Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
PhD, Computer Science
Scalable Cluster Technologies for Mission-Critical Enterprise Computing
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Honors & Awards
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Informationweek CIO/CTO of the year, 2008
GP Bullhound Media Personality of the year, 2009
GP Bullhound Media Personality of the year, 2009