Sajai Krishnan drives overall strategy and business execution for ParaScale. Before ParaScale, he was General Manager of the StoreVault Division of NetApp, responsible for creating and developing the division's multi-national efforts within the mid-market segment. StoreVault won more industry awards than any other product in NetApp history, and VARBusiness magazine awarded its channel program five stars, placing it in the top bracket in 2008. Prior to this appointment, Krishnan was the General Manager of NetApp’s Storage Management Software business, overseeing the company's core management software offerings. Before joining NetApp, Krishnan was vice president at management consultants Booz Allen & Hamilton, and as a partner in the company's Communications, Media & Technology (CMT) practice. While there he served as a business consultant to clients in the wireless, software, telecommunications, cable, networking, and systems arenas. Krishnan started his career as a software engineer at Sun Microsystems. Krishnan has an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in addition to a master’s degree in computer science from Rice University. His B.S. is in electronics engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras.
Cameron Bahar — CTO, Founder
Cameron leads the technology direction at ParaScale, bringing over 19 years of systems software development and deep expertise in distributed operating systems and file management. Earlier, Cameron led design, deployment, and operation of Scale8's one-thousand server distributed Internet storage service that provided storage for digital content owners including MSN and Viacom/MTV. At the HP Enterprise Systems Technology Lab, he developed system software for disk volume management, data security, and grid provisioning. At Teradata, Cameron developed extensions to UNIX to allow the massive parallel processing required by the Teradata database, the world's largest and fastest distributed RDBMS. Cameron started his career at Locus Computing, a pioneer in distributed operating systems, single-system image clustering, and distributed file systems. Cameron holds a BS, summa cum laude, and an MS with honors, in Electrical Engineering from UC Irvine. Cameron holds 4 patents in scalable distributed storage systems, virtual file systems, and high availability systems.
Mark Kampe — Technical Director
Mark is one of the key early technical leads at ParaScale and contributes to the scalability and availability features of the ParaScale product. Mark has held senior engineering and management roles at Sun Microsystems and Locus Computing. Most recently Mark served on the Solaris architecture committee at Sun during his 12-year tenure in the Solaris Products Group. Earlier, Mark was a founding member of two start-ups: he was chief engineer and lead architect at Segue Software (IPO in 1996) and architect and development manager at Interactive Systems (acquired by Kodak in 1991). At the start of his career, Mark did research in Security Kernel research at UCLA and software development for the ARPA Network Measurement Center. Mark has extensive experience on operating systems, platform support, file systems, multi-processor support, distributed systems, high availability and management infrastructure. Mark holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from UCLA with honors and holds 18 patents in operating systems and high availability.
Oleg Kiselev — Chief Architect
Oleg Kiselev drives the technical vision and architecture for ParaScale’s cloud storage solutions. He joined ParaScale from Symantec, which acquired Veritas in 2005. As a Senior Director of Engineering and a Distinguished Engineer at Symantec, Kiselev led teams in the Storage Foundations division of the Data Center Management business unit. Kiselev has been granted 55 patents in the areas of storage management and clustering, and served as a member of Symantec’s Patent Filter Committee and open source Intellectual Property Review Board. Starting at Veritas when the company was still a tiny startup, Kiselev was instrumental in development and architecture of its flagshipproductsincluding Volume Manager and Cluster Volume Manager. He was also active in SNIA’s Object Storage Working Group.Mr. Kiselev joined Veritas from Locus Computing Corporation, the early pioneer in single system image clustering and distributed UNIX, where he was a member of the operating system group.
