Cameron Bahar

Current

Founder & CTO at Parascale, Inc.

Past

Director of Engineering at Scale8 (IP acquired by Intel)
Software Architect at HP Enterprise Systems Technology Lab
Director of Engineering at Currenex, Inc. (acuired by State Street: NYSE: STT for ~$600M)

Software Architect at HP Enterprise Systems Technology Lab
Software Architect at Teradata / NCR / AT&T
Co-Founder / President & CEO at Nupon Computing, Inc.
Principal Member of Technical Staff at Locus Computing

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Education

UCLA
UCI
UCI

Oxford University - Homefield College

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Industry

Computer Software

Cameron Bahar’s Experience

Founder & CTO

Parascale, Inc.

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

August 2004 — Present (5 years)

Founded ParaScale with the goal of building a software company focused on delivering a cloud storage software solution suitable for digital content and active archives. The ParaScale Cloud Storage (PCS) software aggregates storage across multiple standard Linux servers to provide one highly scalable storage cloud, with massive capacity and parallel throughput.
Director of Engineering

Scale8 (IP acquired by Intel)

(Computer Software industry)

August 2002 — June 2003 (11 months)

Responsible for GSS software group (Global Storage Service); arguably the first public cloud storage solution for enterprise customers. Key customers included Microsoft MSN service, and MTV/Viacom plus a host of smaller media and online backup companies. Product was offered as an HTTP-based file service using an internally developed custom global filesystem aggregating hundreds of commodity servers spread across the WAN over 4 continents. Provided high aggregate bandwidth to many internet users across the globe. IP acquired by Intel Corporation.
Software Architect

HP Enterprise Systems Technology Lab

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Computer Software industry)

January 2002 — July 2002 (7 months)

Architecture and implementation of auto device discovery within the HP Utility Data Center product set. Product allows automated and dynamic provisioning of servers, storage and networking components forming the basis of utility computing.
Director of Engineering

Currenex, Inc. (acuired by State Street: NYSE: STT for ~$600M)

(Computer Software industry)

April 2000 — November 2001 (1 year 8 months)

Built the first Internet-based foreign currency trading platform linking large banks with corporates and hedge funds.

Responsible for the scalable platform architecture, distributed communication framework for real-time trading, deployment, and 24x7 operation of the service.
Software Architect

HP Enterprise Systems Technology Lab

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Computer Software industry)

June 1997 — April 2000 (2 years 11 months)

Worked on release of HP-UX 11.0 Operating System running on all HP Enterprise Servers
Subsystems responsibility:
. Trusted OS features
. Security and encryption
. LVM - Logical Volume Manager - SAN
Software Architect

Teradata / NCR / AT&T

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NCR; Computer Software industry)

October 1994 — May 1997 (2 years 8 months)

Worked on inital version of Teradata RDMBS on the NCR Unix SVR4 Worldmark servers. Worked on the system layer, namely a distributed SVR4 Unix operating system including kernel subroutines for database application. System ran in a shared-nothing MPP architecture using a custom interconnect called Bynet. Worked on a fair-share scheduler in the kernel to allow the application level scheduling of database jobs.

Also worked on performance tuning and TPC-D benchmarks.
Co-Founder / President & CEO

Nupon Computing, Inc.

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

March 1992 — October 1994 (2 years 8 months)

Started with a couple of friends from Locus/UCLA and built a tri-protocol router / communications server supporting TCP/IP, LAT, IPX/SPX over PPP. It also included print serving and termianl services.
Obtained funding, managed outsourcing, managed sales/mktg and finance.
Shipped product within 12 months of funding, on schedule.
Sold product and IP to a larger networking company.
Principal Member of Technical Staff

Locus Computing

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 1989 — March 1992 (2 years 6 months)

Technical Lead & developer of AIX-TCF, IBM's Unix distributed operating system. Worked on a shared-nothing distributed filesystem as well as storage management and administration. Successfully released and supported AIX v1.0 through 1.2 worldwide.
Also worked in other areas of distributed operating system such as TCP/IP, NFS, remote-devices.

Cameron Bahar’s Education

UCLA

Ph.D. - deferred , EECS , 1989 — 1995
UCI

M.S , EECS - 4.0 , September 1987 — June 1988

Activities and Societies:

UC Regents Scholarship for MS/Ph.D
UCI

B.S , EECS - Suma Cum Laude - 4.0 , September 1983 — June 1987

Activities and Societies:

Tau Beta Pi, Etta Kappa Nu
Oxford University - Homefield College

A-Levels , Math, Physics, Chemistry , September 1982 — June 1983