Werner Hans Peter Vogels was born on 3 October 1958 and is the chief technology officer and vice president of Amazon in charge of driving technology innovation within the company.
11 Facts About Werner Vogels
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Werner Vogels worked at the Antoni van Leeuwenhoekziekenhuis, part of the Netherlands Cancer Institute, from 1979 through 1985.
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From 1991 through 1994, Werner Vogels was a senior researcher at INESC in Lisboa, Portugal.
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Werner Vogels worked with Paulo Verissimo and Luis Rodrigues on fault-tolerant distributed systems, evolving the reliable group communication system that was developed in the context of the Delta-4 project.
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From 1994 until 2004, Werner Vogels was a research scientist at the Computer Science Department of Cornell University.
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Werner Vogels mainly conducted research in scalable reliable enterprise systems.
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Werner Vogels is the author of many conference and journal articles, mainly on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing systems.
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Werner Vogels co-founded a company with Kenneth Birman and Robbert van Renesse in 1997 called Reliable Network Solutions, Inc The company possessed US patents on computer network resource monitoring and multicast protocols.
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Werner Vogels joined Amazon in September 2004 as the director of systems research.
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Werner Vogels was named chief technology officer in January 2005 and vice president in March of that year.
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Werner Vogels described the deep technical nature of Amazon's infrastructure work in a paper about Amazon's Dynamo, the storage engine for Amazon's shopping cart.