Co-founder, CTO, VP Engineering at Cloudera, Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Co-founder, CTO, VP Engineering. at Cloudera, Inc.
- Board Member, Seed Investor at Diagnosoft, Inc.
- Past
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- Entrepreneur in Residence at Accel Partners
- VP Engineering for Product Intelligence Systems and Deep Analytics at Yahoo! Inc.
- Founder, System Architect. at VivaSmart/Aptivia
- Senior Research Intern at Nortel Networks
- Research Intern at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
- Education
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- Stanford University
- Cairo University
- Cairo University
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Amr Awadallah’s Summary
Bridging the gap between technology, product, and business.
Amr Awadallah’s Specialties:
Internet Infrastructure/Systems Architecture,
Internet Scale Systems,
Virtualization Technology,
Distributed Systems,
Super Large Data Warehousing Systems,
Advanced Analytics and Data Mining,
Search (as in Web Search),
Web Content Caching and Distribution,
Application layer protocol design,
Web Advertising and Matching technologies.
Amr Awadallah’s Experience
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Co-founder, CTO, VP Engineering.
Cloudera, Inc.
(Computer Software industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year)
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Board Member, Seed Investor
Diagnosoft, Inc.
(Computer Software industry)
2002 — Present (7 years)
Diagnosoft builds windows software that can analyze cardiac MRI image sequences to quantify where the heart is weak.
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Entrepreneur in Residence
Accel Partners
(Partnership; 11-50 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
June 2008 — October 2008 (5 months)
I am looking at the virtual machines, cloud computing, and grid computing space.
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VP Engineering for Product Intelligence Systems and Deep Analytics
Yahoo! Inc.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
June 2000 — September 2008 (8 years 4 months)
Optimize Yahoo's Products based on science, metrics, and analytics. I ran the Product Intelligence Engineering team, a group of 60 people responsible for both building large-scale data systems and analysis of the data there-of.
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Founder, System Architect.
VivaSmart/Aptivia
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
May 1999 — June 2000 (1 year 2 months)
I started VivaSmart with Thai Tran to build comparison shopping technology. We were acquired by Yahoo! Inc in mid 2000. Our technology is now the backend powering the content management system for Yahoo Shopping (aka Catzilla).
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Senior Research Intern
Nortel Networks
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NT; Telecommunications industry)
June 1998 — September 1998 (4 months)
Built a packet mapper using window NDIS drivers to provide QoS for video conversations. A patent was issued based on this implementation.
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Research Intern
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Computer Software industry)
June 1997 — September 1997 (4 months)
Migrated the freebsd TCP/IP stack to the wind river operating system on an intelligent IO card. The card serves to offload network processing from the host.
Amr Awadallah’s Education
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Stanford University
PhD , EE , 1995 — 2007
PhD Thesis: "The vMatrix: A backward-compatible solution for improving the interactivity, scalability, and reliability of Internet applications.", Amr A. Awadallah, Electrical Engineering Dept, Stanford University, June 2007. Essentially I researched many ways to use virtual machine technology to make the Internet better. You can read more at http://vmatrix.awadallah.com
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Cairo University
M.Sc. , Computer Engineering , 1992 — 1995
My masters thesis was about computer animation algorithms to generate realistic human walking, you can read more at: http://www.awadallah.com/human.html
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Cairo University
B.Sc. , Electrical Engineering. , 1987 — 1992
Finished 4th out of a class of 400.
Additional Information
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Amr Awadallah’s Interests:
Gaming: FPS, RTS and some MMORPGs. Science Fiction.
