Primary Job Title Co-founder, Inventor and Chief Scientist Primary Organization WANdisco
Location San Mateo, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
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Dr. Aahlad is a recognized world-wide authority on distributed computing where he currently holds 3 patents. It was Dr. Aahlad's vision and persistence that led to the invention of technology that many thought was impossible - that of active-active replication (WANdisco's patent pending DConE technology). Prior to WANdisco, Dr. Aahlad
served as the distributed systems architect for iPlanet (Sun/Netscape Alliance) Application Server. At Netscape, Dr. Aahlad joined the elite team in charge of creating a new server platform based on the CORBA distributed object framework.
Prior to Sun/Netscape Dr. Aahlad worked on incorporating the CORBA security service into Fujitsu's Object Request Broker. Dr. Aahlad designed and implemented the CORBA event services while working on Sun's first CORBA initiative. Earlier in his career, Dr. Aahlad worked on a distributed programming language at IBM's Palo Alto Scientific Center.
Dr. Aahlad has a Ph.D in distributed computing from the University of Texas, Austin and a BS in EE from IIT Madras.