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San Francisco, CA-based Midokura Promoted Pino de Candia as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
A global startup with offices in San Francisco, Tokyo, Munich and Barcelona. We create software to solve networking problems for infrastructure as a service (IaaS) clouds. We deliver an overlay network virtualization (SDN) software for OpenStack. Midokura’s vision is to provide a more flexible, customizable and adaptable network infrastructure for companies worldwide through network virtualization. It is Midokura’s mission to unleash the full power of an organization’s networks – while reducing CapEx and OpEx – by adding Midokura’s virtualization software layer onto OpenStack servers, in turn scaling to hundreds of thousands of virtual ports from a single physical network.
About the Person
As CTO, Pino is responsible for Midokura’s technical innovation and evolution of its flagship technology MidoNet. Pino de Candia joined Midokura as a Software Engineer in 2010. He built the early versions of MidoNet, led the Network Controller team as engineering lead and the Architecture team as chief architect in Barcelona. Prior to Midokura, Pino built the Dynamo technology, a highly-available noSQL data store for Amazon.com.Amazon technologies similar to Dynamo are used to power the Amazon S3 service today. Pino holds a Master of Engineering and a Bachelor of Science, both in Computer Science, from Cornell University.
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