Werner Vogels
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Werner Vogels
Amazon Web Services
An engineer , architect , scientist , programmer , self-described troublemaker … The list goes on for AWS CTO and Vice President Werner Vogels .
The Dutch national studied computer science at The Hague University of Applied Sciences ,
and received a PhD in computer science from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam .
After his mandatory military service at the Royal Netherlands Navy , Vogels studied radiology , both diagnostics and therapy , before returning to university to study computer science .
From 1991 to 1994 , Vogels was a senior researcher at INESC in Lisbon , before he joined the computer science department of Cornell University . 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 .
He joined Amazon in September 2004 as its director of systems research , named CTO the following year .
Having won a number of awards , Vogels writes at www . allthingsdistributed . com on building scalable and robust distributed systems .