Chief Science and Engineering Officer, Aerospike, Inc.

Over 30 years of experience in executive roles, engineering management, software development and research across a variety of domains.  Led and actively managed teams of up to 100+ software engineers and research scientists in areas of large scale distributed systems and services, cloud computing, networking, storage and database systems, network management tools, web search, monitoring, reporting, and data analysis systems, and advertising and electronic commerce. Experienced in all aspects of management ranging from product vision, recruitment and team building, driving requirements and design/architecture, collaborative project execution, and large scale external launches of products and services.  Experience in hands-on software development in the areas of databases, e-commerce, reporting and data analysis, and advertising systems.  Academic and Industrial research in optimization and numerical algorithms, parallel algorithms, wireless networking, graph theory, and ad auction bidding systems.