Benoit Chaffanjon

Chief Engineer at Sun Microsystems

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
Past
  • Excellence Center Manager at Informix Europe
  • Senior System Administrator at MATIF SA - French Stock Exchange
Education
  • Paris XI
Connections
402 connections
Industry
Computer Hardware
Websites

Benoit Chaffanjon’s Summary

Benoit Chaffanjon has worked in the field of performance analysis for over 17 years and spent his recent time around Cloud Computing technologies & architectures. As a Chief Engineer for Sun Microsystems, he is the lead engineer of the the worldwide pre-sales organization named Sun Solution Center (http://www.sun.com/solutioncenters/locations/global.jsp). Located in Menlo Park, California - USA, Benoit is an expert in solution and architecture optimization, performance analysis techniques and production environment bottleneck determination (http://blogs.sun.com/MrBenchmark).
Benoit has been working at Sun since May 1998.His primary mission from the beginning was to assist Sun customers in their evaluation of their future information systems and to analyze and optimize the performance of Sun servers. Prior to Sun, Benoit was the Center of Excellence manager for Informix Europe and prior to that a system administrator for the French Stock Exchange (using Novell and various Unix flavors.).

Benoit is a Sun Operating System Ambassador, a member of the Sun DTrace Expert Group and he represents the Sun Sales Organization on the Sun Microsystems Benchmark Council. He also represents Sun at the IIUG (Informix International User Group).

Benoit Chaffanjon’s Specialties:

Cloud computing architecture
Cloud computing software & APIs (Amazon EC2, Kenai, Zembly)
Virtualization techniques (VMware, VirtualBox, xVM, LDOMs, Containers)
Unix (Solaris, HP-UX, AIX), Linux (Red Hat, SuSe), Performance Analysis & Bottleneck determination,Information systems optimization,DTrace,Databases [MySql,Oracle,Informix,Sybase], Java 1.5-1.6-1.7,C,C++,Assembler


Benoit Chaffanjon’s Experience

  • Chief Engineer - Sun Solution Center

    Sun Microsystems

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JAVA; Computer Hardware industry)

    April 2007Present (2 years 8 months)

    Lead for the Sun Solution Center - a global excellence center dedicated to all pre-sales technical projects. It includes architecture, prototypes, proof of concepts and customer benchmarking.

  • Benchmark manager

    Sun Microsystems / StorageTek

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JAVA; Computer Hardware industry)

    1998Present (11 years )

    Lead the Newark Benchmark center


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