Werner Vogels
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Werner Vogels
CTO and VP
Amazon
Vogels is in charge of driving technology innovation within the company . He joined Amazon in September 2004 as the director of systems research . He was named chief technology officer in January 2005 and VP in March of that year . After his mandatory military service that he served in the Dutch navy , Vogels studied radiology , diagnostics and therapy . He worked at the Netherland Cancer Institute from 1979 until 1985 . In 1985 he returned to university to study computer science . After that he pursued a career in computer science research . From 1991 through to 1994 , Vogels was a senior researcher at INESC in Lisbon . In 1994 he was invited to join the computer science department of Cornell University as a visiting scientist . From 1994 until 2004 , 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 . In 1997 he co-founded a company called Reliable Network Solutions , Inc . which possessed U . S . patents on computer network resource monitoring and multicast protocols . He became the VP and CTO . In 2008 , it became evident that Vogels was one of the architects behind Amazon ' s approach to cloud computing ( AWS ). During that year Vogels was continuously on the road to promote cloud computing and AWS and its benefits to the industry . He has been recognised with several high profile awards over the years .
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