Chief Technology Officer
Current
2023 - Present
~3 yrs 4 mos
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Dan Van Der Ster Email & Phone Number
CTO at CLYSO and Ceph Executive Council member
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CTO at CLYSO and Ceph Executive Council member
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Dan Van Der Ster is listed as CTO at CLYSO and Ceph Executive Council member at CLYSO, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Dan Van Der Ster.
Dan Van Der Ster previously worked as Chief Technology Officer at Clyso and Ceph Executive Council at Ceph. Dan Van Der Ster holds Phd, Distributed Computing from University Of Victoria.
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CTO at Clyso and Ceph Executing Council member. Formerly Chief IT Architect and Ceph Service Manager at CERN.
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14 roles · 27 years
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Ceph Executive Council
CurrentMember of the Ceph Executive Council, providing overall governance to the Ceph project. https://ceph.io
2021 - Present
~5 yrs 4 mos
Ceph Governing Board
Member of Ceph Foundation. Academic Liaison to the Ceph Governing Board. https://ceph.io
2018 - 2021
~3 yrs
2015 - 2018
~3 yrs
2022 - 2022
Staff Computing Engineer - Storage
Responsible for design and operations of several multi-petabyte Ceph clusters for OpenStack, S3 and CephFS for our private cloud and HPC infrastructures.Member of the Ceph Governing Board.Responsible for operations of the CERN VM Filesystem (CVMFS), the software CDN delivering high energy physics applications and data to the Worldwide LHC Computing.
2012 - 2022
~10 yrs
Staff Computing Engineer - Grid Computing
Co-convener for ATLAS Distributed Data Analysis Software.Software developer for the HammerCloud test framework, and Ganga and PANDA data analysis platforms.Developed some of the first examples of WLCG cloud computing, including an ATLAS PoC running on Amazon EC2 instances.Developed the ATLAS flagship use-case for the EU-funded Helix Nebula Science Cloud..
2010 - 2012
~2 yrs
Postdoctoral Fellow - Grid Computing
Co-convener for ATLAS Distributed Data Analysis Software.Introduced a novel distributed stress test for the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (HammerCloud), used to validate the global high energy physics computing infrastructure prior to the startup of the LHC at CERN.Software developer for the Ganga and PANDA systems, used by hundreds of high energy.
2008 - 2010
~2 yrs
Distributed Computing Developer
Developer for Grid Canada, first example of Grid Computing in Canada. Developed resource broker.
2002 - 2002
Computer Helpdesk Technician
Provided helpdesk support to University staff and students. Supported Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.Developed a custom Linux distribution based on RedHat.Participated in Y2K upgrades.
1999 - 2002
~3 yrs
Network Developer
Developed several network administration tools including an IP administration system and an SNMP switch interface.
2001 - 2001
Network Developer
Developed several network administration tools including an IP administration system and an SNMP switch interface.
2000 - 2000
C And Php Developer
Sparklit Networks
Developed software to deliver online surveys (SurveyLogix) and an advertisement server which was optimised to deliver greater than one thousand hits per second.
2002 - 2002
C++ Developer
Intec Automation Inc.
Developed a easy-to-use GUI application to remotely program and control an embedded HC11 microcontroller (MicroCommander). Software used included Borland C++Builder and embedded C.
2000 - 2000
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Dan Van Der Ster education
Phd, Distributed Computing
University Of Victoria
Bachelor Of Engineering, Computer Engineering - Systems Option
University Of Victoria
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Dan Van Der Ster works for CLYSO.
What is Dan Van Der Ster's role at CLYSO?
Dan Van Der Ster is listed as CTO at CLYSO and Ceph Executive Council member at CLYSO.
Where is Dan Van Der Ster based?
Dan Van Der Ster is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada while working with CLYSO.
What companies has Dan Van Der Ster worked for?
Dan Van Der Ster has worked for Clyso, Ceph, Cern, University Of Victoria, and Sparklit Networks.
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Dan Van Der Ster holds Phd, Distributed Computing from University Of Victoria.
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