Werner Vogels
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Werner Vogels in 2008 in Amsterdam
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| Born | Werner Hans Peter Vogels 3 October 1958 Ermelo, Netherlands |
| Residence | Seattle, Washington |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Fields | Distributed computing |
| Institutions |
Cornell University Amazon.com INESC Porto Vrije Universiteit |
| Alma mater |
Vrije Universiteit The Hague University of Applied Sciences |
| Thesis | Scalable Cluster Technologies for Mission Critical Enterprise Computing (2003) |
| Doctoral advisor |
Henri Bal Andy Tanenbaum |
| Known for | Amazon Web Services |
| Spouse | Annet Vogels |
| Children | Laura Vogels Kim Vogels |
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Website www |
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Werner Hans Peter Vogels (born 3 October 1958) is the chief technology officer and Vice President of Amazon.com in charge of driving technology innovation within the company. Vogels has broad internal and external responsibilities.
Vogels studied computer science at The Hague University of Applied Sciences finishing in June 1989.
Vogels received a Ph.D. in computer science from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands supervised by Henri Bal and Andy Tanenbaum.
From 1991 through 1994, he was a senior researcher at INESC in Porto, Portugal.
From 1994 until 2004, Dr. Vogels was a research scientist at the Computer Science Department of Cornell University. He mainly conducted research in scalable reliable enterprise systems. He is the author of many conference and journal articles, mainly on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing systems.
He 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. From 1999 through 2002, he held vice president and chief technology officer positions with the company.
He joined Amazon in September 2004 as the director of systems research. He was named chief technology officer in January 2005 and vice president in March of that year.
Vogels maintains a blog focusing on "building scalable and robust distributed systems", which he started in 2001 while a scientist at Cornell. It was first used to discuss early results of his research. After he joined Amazon.com, the nature of the weblog changed to be more product-oriented with some general technology and industry writings.
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