Conference: Cloud Computing Developer Track

Dr. Shashi Mysore is a Product Specialist at Eucalyptus Systems, the leading open source on-premise cloud computing software provider. At Eucalyptus Systems, his responsibilities include developing the technological know-how and strategies for innovation based on cutting-edge research, and helping a worldwide customer base of large enterprises in domains as diverse as pharmaceuticals and health care, government, media and entertainment, manufacturing, and banking and finance to develop cloud deployment and infrastructure optimization strategies. Dr. Mysore obtained his MS and PhD in Computer Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara and is a recipient of several awards at internationally renowned conferences including two IEEE Micro Top Pick awards.

Adrian Cole is the founder of the open source jclouds project and CEO of Cloud Conscious, LLC. Adrian's 16 year career in IT includes design and implementation of mass automation and deployment products for financial, hosting, and education contexts.

George Reese is the founder of Minneapolis-based enStratus Networks LLC, maker of high-end cloud infrastructure management tools. He is a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance and author of a number of technology books, including MySQL Pocket Reference, Database Programming with JDBC and Java, Java Database Best Practices, and Cloud Application Architectures. Throughout the Internet era, George has spent his career building enterprise tools for developers and delivering solutions to the marketing domain. He was an influential force in the evolution of online gaming through the creation of a number of Open Source MUD libraries and he created the first JDBC driver in 1996—the Open Source mSQL-JDBC. Most recently, George has been involved in the development of systems to support the deployment of transactional web applications in the cloud. George holds a BA in Philosophy from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, Illinois. He currently lives in Minnesota with his wife Monique and his daughters Kyra and Lindsey.

Mike Mayo is the creator of the Rackspace Cloud and Slicehost iPhone, iPad and Android apps and builds open source software for the Rackspace Cloud.  He is active in the Bay Area cloud computing community and has worked for Coupa Software, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and FedEx.  He holds a BS in Computer Science from Christian Brothers University, maintains a blog at overhrd.com, and actively talks about technology on Twitter as @greenisus.

Mitch Garnaat is the founder and CEO of CloudRight. He is a veteran of more than 20 years in the software world. He was the co-inventor and lead developer of DocuShare, a web-based document management product from Xerox. He was was also a Principal Engineer and Area Manager at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and later the Chief Engineer for Emerging Technologies at Xerox Global Services. He is the developer of boto, an open source Python library for AWS and is active in the AWS community as an author, forum poster and member of Amazon’s Customer Advisory Board.  

Justin Kitagawa is responsible for the original design and development of GoGrid’s API and customer portal.  He is a founding software engineer working at GoGrid from its inception since 2006.  He is currently a senior leader on the engineering team leading GoGrid’s virtualization team. Justin graduated cum laude from UC San Diego with a BS in Computer/ Cognitive Science.  At iSpheres, a previous employer founded by Simon Ramo /Cal Tech Professor, K. Mani Chandy, his work helped embed their event server into Oracle 10G’s Application Server. Justin graduated cum laude from UC San Diego with a BS in Computer/ Cognitive Science.  At iSpheres, a previous employer founded by Simon Ramo /Cal Tech Professor, K. Mani Chandy, his work helped embed their event server into Oracle 10G’s Application Server. He has extensive experience in distributed systems, systems architecture, message middleware, and complex software architectures.  He has a passion for cloud computing, and is extremely excited to be a part of CloudConnect.

Sam brings over 15 years of industry experience in enterprise software, product development, and open source strategy.  Prior to Sonoa, Ramji led open source strategy across Microsoft. He was a founding member of the AquaLogic product team and has built large-scale enterprise and Web-scale applications, leading the Ofoto engineering team through its acquisition by Kodak. Other experience includes hands-on development of client, client-server and distributed applications on Unix, Windows and Macintosh at companies ranging from Broderbund to Fair Isaac. Sam holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Cognitive Science from the University of California at San Diego, and is a member of the Institute for Generative Leadership.

As a Technology Evangelist at Amazon, Jinesh Varia helps businesses take advantage of disruptive technologies like Cloud Computing that are changing the way businesses compete in the new web world. Jinesh has spoken at more than 100 conferences and User Groups and conducted workshops around the world. He is focused on furthering awareness of web services and often helps developers and architects in Start-ups, Enterprises and Universities leverage Amazon’s innovative services. Jinesh has over 11 years experience in XML and Web services and has worked with standards-based working groups in XBRL. Prior to joining Amazon as an evangelist, he held several positions in UBmatrix including Solutions Architect, Enterprise Team Lead and Software engineer, working on various financial services projects including Call Modernization Project at FDIC. He was also lead developer at Penn State Data Center, Institute of Regional Affairs. Jinesh’s publications have been published in ACM and IEEE. Jinesh is originally from India and holds a Master’s degree in Information Systems from Penn State University. 

Thorsten co-founded RightScale, Inc, the leading cloud management platform. Previously, Thorsten was Chief Architect at Expertcity.com and Citrix Online, makers of GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, and GoToAssist. He was responsible for the overall architecture of these online services and also managed the 24/7 datacenter operations which allowed him to acquire deep knowledge in deploying and running secure scalable online services. Thorsten received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and was a professor of computer science at Cornell University.

Nati is the CTO and Founder of GigaSpaces. Nati is also a co-founder member of the Israeli Grid consortium. He has 10 years of experience with distributed technology and architecture namely Cloud Computing, SOA, XTP, JEE, Spring, Grid, Jini, CORBA. As a software visionary and industry leader, Mr. Shalom is a frequent presenter at industry conferences and is actively involved in evangelizing Cloud Computing, Space Based Architecture and Data Grid patterns.

Ezra Zygmuntowicz is a founder and developer at Engine Yard. He has been active in the Ruby community for over seven years, and has contributed to many open source projects, including Rails, Merb, Rack and Rubinius. He is co-author of Deploying Rails Applications, published by The Pragmatic Programmers, and speaks at Ruby, Rails and Cloud Computing related events throughout the country.

Abbas Valliani brings more than a decade of experience as a financial innovator and leader in the development of financial accounting and analytic systems. He has extensive experience in accounting for mortgage-backed securities and loan portfolios for secondary mortgage markets as well as retail and commercial lending banks.

At Primatics, Abbas is leading the growth of the risk management practice including the development of the Evolv Risk Platform that will provide on-demand risk analytics to regional and large US banks around credit and interest rate risk. He is also involved in leading company strategic initiatives that involve marketing, Joint Ventures and expansion into international markets.

His prior experience includes development of FAS 91 engines for two large secondary mortgage clients during their financial restatements (more than 1.3 trillion in portfolio size) and during restatements of multiple retail and commercial lending banks.

Abbas has a Bachelors' in Systems Engineering from University of Virginia and graduated with highest honors as a Rodman scholar.

Brian Lucas is Lead Architect of Internet Services at Sling Media and currently manages the Internet team at the company’s Bay Area location.   He introduced Sling Media to the cloud and grid services model  after using it to solve a number of unique challenges at prior companies, and today a large majority of Sling Media’s infrastructure is cloud-based.   Most recently, he led the launch of slingbox.com to replace the client-software model with a web-based experience.