Werner Vogels

Werner Hans Peter Vogels (born 3 October 1958) is the chief technology officer and Vice President of Amazon.com in charge of driving technology innovation within the company. Vogels has broad internal and external responsibilities. 2Education Vogels studied computer science at The Hague University of Applied Sciences finishing in June 1989. Vogels received a Ph.D. in computer science from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands supervised by Henri Bal and Andy Tanenbaum. 2Career From 1991 through 1994, he was a senior researcher at INESC in Porto, Portugal. From 1994 until 2004, Dr. 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. He co-founded a company with Kenneth Birman and Robbert van Renesse in 1997 called Reliable Network Solutions, In