Rod Boothby

Current

• Vice President, Platform Evangelism at Joyent

Past

• Senior Director Solution Marketing at Teqlo Inc
• Manager at Ernst & Young
• Risk Management Consultant, Credit Risk Architecture at Wells Fargo Bank

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Rod Boothby’s Summary

I head up platform evangelism at the cloud computing company, Joyent.

Joyent's compute cloud provides a highly scalable on-demand infrastructure for running web sites, including rich web applications written in Ruby on Rails, PHP, Python and Java. Joyent Accelerators are next-generation virtual computers that can grow and multiply (or shrink and consolidate) depending on the real world demands faced by your Web application. Accelerators are built on OpenSolaris, multi-core (8+), RAM-rich servers (32GB+ each) and vast amounts of NAS storage. Accelerators are deployed in the best routing and switching fabric (Force 10) and the best load-balancers (F5 Networks) available (and always will be).

Example customers include Twitter, Kinzin and LinkedIn.

We have also just announced a deal with Facebook. We are giving away one year's hosting for 3,500 medium size Accelerators to Facebook developers. These machines support somewhere between 20K and 50K users depending on the app and how you code it.

Previously, I have worked as a Manager in Ernst & Young's Financial Services Advisory practice. There, my client included many of the top 5 US banks and some of the top 10 US Hedge Funds. I helped them deal with derivatives, credit, correlation and capital allocaton issues. I also helped firms select and/or design, build and then deploy trading systems based on web services, XML, C++, C# or Java.

My experience also includes 10+ years as a fixed income derivatives trader, a quant, a systems development manager and a consultant. I have devised profitable trading strategies, started 2 businesses, helped generate $1.5MM in sales of consulting services, and helped raise over $26MM in funding and commitments for 2 technology start-ups.

As a trader, I was part of a four person team that generated $15M+ annual profits and over 100% return on capital from 1997 until 1999.

My education includes both a BA (Hons) and MA in Economics.

Rod Boothby’s Experience

• Vice President, Platform Evangelism

  Joyent

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  November 2007 — Present (7 months)

  Joyent is a technology company. Joyent's Accelerator™ powered compute cloud provides a super scalable on-demand infrastructure for running web sites, including rich web applications written in Ruby on Rails, PHP, and Python.

• Senior Director Solution Marketing

  Teqlo Inc

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  December 2006 — November 2007 (1 year)

  Teqlo was a web technology start-up. We had a web services integration engine that people use to assemble and run applications. That means that Teqlo helped you to build multi step, highly complex mash-ups without requiring you to code!
  
  Teqlo added verbs to the Internet.... grab information from Site A, send it to site B, based on that, do some calculations in my customized online spreadsheet in site C, and then watch the result. If, after a while a certain outcome happens, send me an SMS message.

• Manager

  Ernst & Young

  (Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Capital Markets industry)

  April 2004 — December 2006 (2 years 9 months)

  Manage teams that provide guidance/expertise and advisory services in the areas of Credit Default Swap and CDO pricing, Basel II regulatory issues, credit risk and capital markets technology with a focus on credit and fixed income derivatives systems and the use of XML.

• Risk Management Consultant, Credit Risk Architecture

  Wells Fargo Bank

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; WFC; Capital Markets industry)

  January 2002 — March 2004 (2 years 3 months)

  - Developed Synthetic CDO and CDS pricing tools.
  - Worked with executive management on a $3+ MM project to assess and implement the Bank’s reaction to Basel II.

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