Brian Aker Email & Phone Number

Provide technical and business advice.

Greater Seattle Area

As VP of Engineering for HPCloud's PaaS Engineering group I built out teams to deliver Load Balancing, DNS, Messaging, and MySQL as a service. For these services we built out a HA multi-region, multi-AZ, Open Stack based cloud platform. Created a technical team of project managers to oversee this work. I held budget responsibility for this role and was a.

Provide advice on MySQL integration.

Help guide strategies to work with Open Source Communities. Provide advice on MySQL Integration.

Greater Seattle Area

Built the startup over a 18 month period. We successfully built products that we released, and eventually sold one of key pieces of IP created.

Coach the development teams on deployment methods.

Lead Web Scaling Technology group. Our group provided leadership on the next generation MySQL Architecture (i.e. Drizzle). We also oversaw the work to provide the Niagra2 architecture with concrete workload usage. This was done by optimizing applications like Memcached. To demonstrate the utility of Sun's cloud we built a distributed search engine during.

Advice on deployment and development strategies.

In this role I was responsible for the creation of a world wide engineering organization spanning more then 32 countries. I formalized six product lines and oversaw the introduction of QA, Release, and CI organizational functions. The organization's engineering directors reported directly to me and along with it project management. Much of the team I.

Was responsible for the first major rewrite of Slashdot's database backend and restructured entire code base in order to make it scale. Rewrote the DB layer for better scaling, and integrated Slashdot's backend deeply into the Apache web server. Oversaw development efforts on additional OSDN websites.

Tangent Software specialized in four areas over its lifetime and was anywhere from 1 to four employees. Its speciality was in doing custom designed software for small companies who needed turn key solutions. These included the design and coding of software for banking machines, GIS problems, and web consulting. Plus we consulted on network and UNIX system.

Oversaw architecture changes, redesigns of websites and IVR infrastructure. Managed IT group during critical transition point for company.

Oversaw redesign and deployment of the Virtual Hospital one of the Internet's first online resource sites for medical information. Helped write grants, manage infrastructure, and write software for the staging of lung cancer and asthma. Designed search engine for medial data. Designed replication system for transporting Naval medical texts. Oversaw the.

Wrote software for scale models, 3D wireframe models, and designed statistical software for determining rain data for a distributed computing framework.

Maintained Vax Lab and oversaw student workers. Designed campus backbone, and oversaw transition from VMS based infrastructure to a Sun/UNIX environment.

Doctor Of Philosophy, Computational Geoscience

Bachelor Of Science, Math, Computer Science, Environmental Science

Bachelor Of Science, History, Geology

Majored in History of Science (completed thesis), Minor in Women Studies. Graphic Artist and Layout Manager for two years at the Kentucky.