
Senior Research Fellow at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Springfield, Massachusetts Area

Senior Research Fellow at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Springfield, Massachusetts Area
Research scientist and software architect with a strong background in distributed systems and networks. I have experience in building and leading small R&D teams. My current interests are building enterprise-class highly available systems with an autonomic behavior and automated distributed software testing.
Distributed systems, databases, software engineering, open source development, project management
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
Contributing to Aster Data Systems technology developments.
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
July 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)
Working in the Laboratory for Advanced Systems Software with Prashant Shenoy.
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; EPFL; Research industry)
November 2006 — July 2008 (1 year 9 months)
Working on dependable systems in DSLAB (http://dslab.epfl.ch) and LABOS (http://labos.epfl.ch)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 2006 — August 2007 (10 months)
I have been working part time for Continuent as Chief Scientific Officer during that period.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2005 — October 2006 (1 year 2 months)
Continuent is the new name of Emic Networks.
Company relaunch occured on October 1, 2005 and I was promoted Chief Architect.
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2004 — October 2005 (1 year 10 months)
Leading the college of architects to build a cohesive open source middleware offering with a sound architecture. Represented the college at the ObjectWeb board during my mandate.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2005 — September 2005 (9 months)
(Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2002 — December 2004 (2 years 4 months)
Full time researcher at INRIA research unit in Grenoble, France. Leading research in distributed systems and databases with a focus on autonomic systems in the Sardes project (http://sardes.inrialpes.fr)
(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2001 — August 2002 (1 year 1 month)
I contributed to DynaServer (http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/Systems/DynaServer/) at Rice University to study the design of scalable and highly available e-business servers. I designed the RUBiS and RUBBoS benchmarks (http://jmob.objectweb.org) and published an Oopsla paper on EJB performance.
Ph.D. , Computer Science , September 1998 — July 2001
Master (DEA) , Distributed systems , 1997 — 1998
DESS (Engineering degree) , Distributed systems and Networks , 1996 — 1997
Open source development, Dependable systems, High availability, Distributed systems, Autonomic systems, Software QA, Databases Hiking, Ski, Traveling