Cloudscaling’s team members have designed, built, and managed many of the world’s largest clouds. They are veterans and pioneers who have worked with and for many of the top names in cloud computing including: Amazon EC2, GoGrid, Yahoo!, Sun Cloud, RightScale, Appirio, EngineYard, VMWare, Hotmail, Microsoft Windows Live, GigaSpaces, and Edgecast.
Randy L. Bias — CEO
Randy is the expert cloud vendors & providers like VMware, EngineYard, Internap, and GoGrid consult when they need help. His boutique cloud strategy consulting firm, Cloudscaling, advises Fortune 500 companies like Kaiser Permanente with their internal cloud initiatives. He has driven innovations in infrastructure, IT, Operations, and 24×7 service delivery since 1990. He was the technical visionary on the executive team of GoGrid & ServePath, a major cloud computing provider. Prior to GoGrid, he built the world’s first multi-cloud, multi-platform cloud management framework at CloudScale Networks, Inc.
Randy is recognized as one of the top cloud bloggers and twitterers. The Cloudscaling blog has tens of thousands of page views every month.
In addition to his contributions as a blogger, Randy’s open licensing of the GoGrid API inspired many others to open license their IaaS cloud APIs including Sun Microsystems, Rackspace Cloud, and VMware.
Randy’s biography: 
And his Strengths Finder report:
Adam Waters — COO
Adam Waters comes to Cloudscaling with an extensive background in IP networking, routing, datacenter and large scale network operations. He is responsible of all aspects of business operations.
Adam served as VP of Engineering for iAsiaWorks (NASDAQ: IAWK) where he oversaw network design and deployment in seven countries across Asia Pacific simultaneously. Additionally, Adam served on the Technical Advisory Committee to the CalREN2 Internet2 research
network, as Chief Network Engineer for GeoNet Communications (acquired by Level3), as CEO of Vedacore, an ICANN accredited registrar (acquired by Enom), in network operations for InterNex Information Systems (acquired by XO Communications), and as a technical consultant
for Newbridge Capital, iVillage, the San Francisco Chronicle, and others. Adam most recently served as COO of Support Intelligence, performing high security consulting for the United States Department of The Treasury, and Advanced Research Projects Agency projects for the Department of Homeland Security.
Adam currently sits on the Board of Advisors for Affective Interfaces. He holds a BA with honors in intellectual history from UC Santa Cruz, and an MBA from UC Davis Graduate School of Management.
Adam Waters comes to Cloudscaling with an extensive background in IP networking, routing, datacenter and large scale network operations. He is responsible of all aspects of business operations.
Adam served as VP of Engineering for iAsiaWorks (NASDAQ: IAWK) where he oversaw network design and deployment in seven countries across Asia Pacific simultaneously. Additionally, Adam served on the Technical Advisory Committee to the CalREN2 Internet2 research network, as Chief Network Engineer for GeoNet Communications (acquired by Level3), as CEO of Vedacore, an ICANN accredited registrar (acquired by Enom), in network operations for InterNex Information Systems (acquired by XO Communications), and as a technical consultant for Newbridge Capital, iVillage, the San Francisco Chronicle, and others.
Adam most recently served as COO of Support Intelligence, performing high security consulting for the United States Department of The Treasury, and Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) projects for the Department of Homeland Security.
Adam currently sits on the Board of Advisors for Affective Interfaces. He holds a BA with honors in intellectual history from UC Santa Cruz, and an MBA from UC Davis Graduate School of Management.
Killian Murphy — Cloud Strategist
Killian has 16 years technology industry experience within startups and Fortune 100 IT organizations in roles encompassing engineering, management and strategy. As a Director in IT at Credit Suisse in New York for over 5 years, he was responsible for developing, integrating and deploying their internal cloud with over 20,000 virtual servers. The technology his team developed became the foundation of a successful Boston-based startup, DynamicOps. Following the success of this large scale deployment Killian managed cloud strategy in the CTO office until his departure in June 2009.
During his work delivering an internal cloud at Credit Suisse, Killian pioneered important areas of internal cloud computing environments, including:
- Extensive end-to-end automation
- Business requirements for security, billing and organizational or regulatory infrastructure silos
- A self-service portal with fine-grained entitlements
Richard Keating — Program Director (PMP / CSM)
Richard’s career spans 15 years in systems engineering, IT and Operations Management with Connect Inc, Adobe, and Microsoft. He managed the Engineering Services team for Adobe product development working with global image deployment in 8 operating systems environments. At Microsoft, he designed and built data centers supporting the Windows Live™ and Hotmail development teams and was an active participant in many of Microsoft’s early cloud computing initiatives.
His passion for cloud strategies is ignited by the possibilities for mobile applications in the corporate environment. Richard believes that mobile apps, when cloud-enabled, will have a huge impact on commercial and enterprise computing.
Richard holds a B.S. in Business Management from San Jose State University and is currently working toward his MBA. He is both PMP (Project Management Professional) and CSM (Certified Scrum Master) certified.
Joe Arnold – Director of Engineering
oe Arnold is an engineering executive with over ten years of industry experience building software systems for cloud computing, network management and high-volume consumer web sites. He joins Cloudscaling as its Director of Engineering responsible for managing cloud development.
Prior to Cloudscaling, Joe served as the Director of Engineering at Engine Yard, and was responsible for building their Ruby on Rails cloud computing deployment platform and open-source efforts including Rails 3.
Relocating to South Asia, he served as a Director for Yahoo! Emerging Markets (India, South East Asia and Latin America), where he architected and delivered a roll-out of Agile development practices for Yahoo!’s global properties. He brings years of expertise in Agile development methodologies and stays active in pushing the cutting-edge of product development processes.
Joe has co-taught CSM (Certified Scrum Master) courses and was an early contributor applying Lean manufacturing processes to software development. His practical method of product development focuses on practices that deliver the right product, on time, with near-zero defects.
Offering a wide breadth of domain experience spanning consumer web, advertising, e-commerce, mobile, and network management, Joe’s experience includes management of engineering at AirWave Wireless (acquired by Aruba Networks) developing large scale wifi network management software, as well as building products and teams for early-stage startups at NASA TEN “The Incubation Network” and Idealab!.
Joe holds a BS with honors in Computer Information Systems from California State University, Chico.
Joe Arnold is an engineering executive with over ten years of industry experience building software systems for cloud computing, network management and high-volume consumer web sites. He joins Cloudscaling as its Director of Engineering responsible for building cloud ‘devops’ teams. Prior to Cloudscaling, Joe served as the Director of Engineering at Engine Yard, and was responsible for building their Ruby on Rails cloud computing deployment platform and open-source efforts including Rails 3.
Before EngineYard he served as a Director for Yahoo! Emerging Markets (India, South East Asia and Latin America), where he architected and delivered a roll-out of Agile development practices for Yahoo!’s global properties. Joe has co-taught CSM (Certified Scrum Master) courses and was an early contributor applying Lean manufacturing processes to software development. His practical method of product development focuses on practices that deliver the right product, on time, with near-zero defects.
Offering a wide breadth of domain experience spanning consumer web, advertising, e-commerce, mobile, and network management, Joe’s experience includes management of engineering at AirWave Wireless (acquired by Aruba Networks) developing large scale wifi network management software, as well as building products and teams for early-stage startups at NASA TEN “The Incubation Network” and Idealab!.
Joe holds a BS with honors in Computer Information Systems from California State University, Chico.
Lew Tucker, PhD — Advisor
Lew brings decades of knowledge to Cloudscaling. His accomplishments include: development of Sun Microsystems’ Open Cloud Platform, Salesforce.com’s AppExchange, social networking site, Twine.com, and working as an executive on the JavaSoft team.
At Sun Microsystems, Salesforce.com, and Thinking Machines Corporation, he played roles in Cloud Computing, Java technology, and high performance computing. Lew’s most recent assignment was at Sun Microsystems as VP and CTO for Cloud Computing business unit where he drove technology and strategy.
His doctoral research at Polytechnic Institute of Technology focused on artificial intelligence and parallel computing. Lew is a frequent guest speaker at technical and professional conferences (CloudConnect 2010 and CloudWorld 2009) and he writes for numerous publications.