AHMED K.

EZZAT

EXECUTIVE-LEVEL PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND STRATEGY

Ahmed.K.Ezzat@gmail.com LinkedIn

408.890.1239 Cupertino, CA 95014

Innovative executive with extensive research and product development experience at the architectural and executive
management levels within highly competitive markets. Proven track record of leading large and small organizations,
including distributed organizations, and delivering on large-scale projects. Interpersonal communicator focused on
building relationships and promoting collaboration across global business lines to drive positive change and
comprehensive product direction for enhanced profitability. Areas of Expertise include:
Cloud Infrastructure
Big Data & Analytics & IoT
Data Management Platforms

Data Mining
Machine Learning
Containers & Mesos

Hadoop / Spark
Staff Mentoring & Leadership
Open Source

E XPERIENCE & S IGNIFICANT C ONTRIBUTIONS

SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS

Introduced Intelligent Storage at HP result-in HP having exclusive offering with Oracle to storage in Exadata-1.
Enhanced K-means to handle outliers; implemented at Huawei for detecting network contention in real-time.
Implementing new encryption algorithm to allow processing encrypted data w/o decryption.
Extending containers to a Distributed Application Container (DAC) for cloud including the network component as
part of the distributed application to provide end-2-end application SLA.
Oracle Buffer Cache architected/designed/implemented in Oracle 7.3 - patent.
Distributed File System at Bell Labs Co-designed/implemented RFS in System V R3.
BIG DATA INSIGHTS Cupertino, CA 2014 and 2016 Present

CTO & HEAD OF ENGINEERING

Responsible for defining technical requirements and direction for IT infrastructure including analytics to ensure the
integrity of enterprise architecture across all functional areas. Partnering with other executives in setting the business
direction and overall roadmap. Delivering services for infrastructure, DC OS and Geo-Distributed data management.
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Demonstrating technical expertise and setting the direction to be consistent with industry trends, technologies and
challenges.
Leading the development and implementation of the product roadmap to ensure desired business outcomes.
SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY Santa Clara, CA 1990 Present
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
Teaching a variety of graduate level courses including Big Data & Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Mining (machine
learning), Cloud Computing and Architecture, advanced Database Systems, Design and Analysis of Computer Networks,
Client-Server and the Internet, and Compiler Design.
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Creating and teaching competitive technical lectures that helped many of my students land jobs with IBM, Google,
Yahoo!, etc.
Demonstrating sensitivity to the needs of students from diverse and multi-cultural backgrounds.
EBAY INC & HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES & BIG DATA INSIGHTS Northern CA 2014 2016
VP OF DATA INFRASTRUCTURE, VP OF STRATEGY & ARCHITECTURE, CEO ADVISOR
Oversaw eBay company-wide data infrastructure engineering by mapping out infrastructure architectures using rapidly
changing technologies leading new initiatives to build the next generation geo-distributed cloud-based Data-as-a-Service
Platform. Delivered real-time stream processing leveraging Storm and Kafka. Set the strategy and architecture for
Huawei software product and incubated new initiatives including those to leverage Mesos toward building a Data Center
OS which was adopted by the company; built a Distributed Application Container (Docker-based) for cloud including the
network component and provided end-2-end application SLA. Leveraged Spark and Hadoop log record analysis for
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KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Led data infrastructure support for the migration from Oracle RDBMS to different NoSQL databases which resulted
in cost saving and provided more flexible data management architecture.
Developed strong relationships with business units and key stakeholders to influence the product roadmap.
Enhanced K-means clustering algorithm to deal with outliers; used by Huawei to detect network contention
As an advisor to the CEO, redirected Big Data Insights technical direction to build a real-time platform to process
data from different data sources; Novel model (patent) to deal with data quality for the above platform.
YAHOO! CORP & ACTIAN CORP Sunnyvale & Redwood City, CA 2012 2014
FELLOW AND VICE PRESIDENT OF PLATFORMS, CTO AND SR. VP OF ENGINEERING
Developed and overseeing the Yahoo! Platform Engineering group and contributing as a member of Yahoo! Architecture
Council. Influence the Personalization service to adopt in-memory processing (Spark). Enhancing Yahoo!s private cloud
network infrastructure authentication model to be zone-based instead of host-based (IP-based) security model;
contributing as a member of the Technology Council overseeing the technical direction company-wide; and ensuring the
engineering and provisioning of resources required for operations, support and maintenance. Led and set the technical
direction of the Actian Engineering organization with ~230 developers world-wide. Proposed and delivered a UDF
Framework project encompassing the development of UDFs ensuring the ability to be deployed either in Hadoop/Hive
for shallow analytics or in Vectorwise (DW) for deep analytics. Led and delivered the Hadoop Connector to Vectorwise;
fastest against published numbers.
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Demonstrated a strong combination of leadership, management, technical expertise and project management
abilities to ensure overall success.
Redirected Actian business direction to focus on analytics and big data.
HEWLETT-PACKARD Cupertino, CA 2002 2012
FELLOW AND CHIEF TECHNOLOGIST CLOUD AND BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE DIVISIONS
Provided thought leadership by managing a Distinguished Technologists team for the technical direction of the division
and ensuring business requirements translate into functioning software systems, services and solutions. Led the data
management (PaaS) in the cloud division over Openstack (IaaS). Oversaw individual projects that have significant
impact on the product including processing encrypted data in the cloud while preserving the algebraic properties of the
application. Developed solution to the N2 IPC connections in parallel query processing in data warehouses which
required N IPC connections (using MPI collective operations); having significant impact on performance.
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Implemented SSD instead of disk for SQL overflow at heavy load achieved 4X for ~20% extra cost.
Invented the notion of Intelligent Storage where relevant query processing (predicates) is moved closer to the data
in the storage device. The idea was presented by HP to Oracle resulting in Exadata-1.
Displayed excellent interpersonal and communication skills and a strong consulting and executive presence.
ORACLE CORP, MANAGE.com & VELOSEL Redwood City, San Jose & Mountain View, CA 1992 2001
SR. DIRECTOR, VP ENGINEERING, CTO & SVP ENGINEERING & CTO
Designed and implemented the modern buffer cache to Oracle database (R7.3) supporting SMP salability (patent and
sward). Led the Oracle Application Server group consisting of 80 engineers to migrate OAS to support J2EE. Delivered
Frontline e.M Server at Manage.com supporting URL sampling, Traceroute and webcrawler; received an award 1999
Product of the Year by Networkk Magazine issue May 2000. Delivered B2B ecommerce XML centric platform (eCM) to
streamline buyer and supplier relationship Velosel was acquired by TIBCO.
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Implemented new concepts in Oracle buffer cache that made it the most advanced offering in the industry.
Significant accomplishment with e.M Server warranting national award in 1999.
Early leveraging XML as meta data representation to interoperate between different buyers and suppliers resulting
in successful exit TIBCO acquisition.

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E DUCATION & T RAINING

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Master of Science (MS) and Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cairo University,
Cairo, Egypt

A WARDS , P ATENTS & P UBLICATIONS

Awards
AT&T Bell Labs Research, Exceptional Contribution Award, for my contribution in the NEST distributed system
(March 1986).
At Manage.com: NetWorld+Interop 99 (Atlanta) "Best of Show" award for being first to provide a hosted
management solution, to an enterprise resources from outside the firewall. Also, won Network Magazine's Product
of the Year award (April 2000) for using XML as a paradigm to manage the Enterprise (Link).
Patents
Method of Propagating Resource Information in a Computer Network, January 24, 1989, Patent #4,800,488.
Method of File Access in a Distributed Processing Computer Network, April 25, 1989, Patent #4,825,354.
Method for the Dynamic Allocation of Page Sizes in Virtual Memory, September 1, 1998, Patent #5,802,341.
Method and Apparatus for Buffering Data in a Computer System, July 7, 1998, Patent #5,778,442.
Method and Apparatus for Database Cluster recovery, submitted (November 2004).
Providing Flexible Protection Model in a Computer System by Decoupling Protection from Computer Privilege Level,
submitted (August 2005).
Intelligent storage for Databases, submitted June 2007 (HP Disclosure No. 200702898).
Logical Global Shared Memory (LGSM), submitted October 2008, 200803695, and was granted August 2011.
Selectivity Based Query Plan Caching, submitted October 2009 (HP Disclosure No. 200803790), and was granted
July 2011.
UIAL: A New Model to integrating structured and unstructured data toward a true operational BI platform in the
enterprise, submitted January 2010 (HP Disclosure No. 201000685).
A New Information Model incorporating data quality and degree of confidence between structured and unstructured
data in an enterprise operational BI platform, submitted January 2010 (HP Disclosure No. 201000686).
Real-Time Analytics, submitted January 2011 (HP Disclosure No. 201004991).
Partitioning Aggregate regular and User Defined Functions (UDF) for Distributed Processing in Parallel Databases,
March 2011 (HP Disclosure No. 82675465).
External Publications
Making Oneself Known in a Distributed World, 1985 Int'l Conf. on Parallel Processing, Aug 1985, pp. 139-142.
Processor Sharing in NEST: A Network of Computer Workstations, 1st Int'l Conf. on Computer Workstations, Nov.
1985, pp. 198-208.
NEST: Processor Sharing in a Network of Workstations, AT&T-BL and AT&T-IS Workstation Symposium `85, Oct.
1985.
Task Allocation Heuristics for Distributed Computing Systems, 6th Int'l Conference on Distributed Computing
Systems, May 1986, pp. 337-346.
Distributed Computing Environment In NEST, 1986 IEEE Workshop on Workstation Operating Systems, November
1986.
Load Balancing in NEST: A Network of Computers, 1986 ACM/IEEE-CS Fall Joint Computer Conference, Nov. 1986,
pp. 1138-1149.
Location Independent Remote Execution in NEST, IEEE Trans. on Software Eng. 13(8), Aug. 1987, 905-912.
MARS: Micro-programmable Accelerator for Rapid Simulation, AT&T Interconnection and Communication Issues
in Future Systems Conference, May 1986.
Architecture and Design of the MARS Hardware Accelerator, 24th ACM/IEEE DAC 1987, pp. 101-107.
Orphans Elimination in Distributed Object-Oriented Systems, IEEE Second Workshop on Future Trends of
Distributed Computing Systems in the 1990's, Sept. 1990, pp. 403-409.
Decentralized Control of Distributed Processing Systems, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, Dec. 1982,
Ph.D. Dissertation.