Meet Yousef Khalidi, Microsoft’s Distinguished Engineer at AppOnCloud Conference

CloudStory.in is all about bringing the key players of the ecosystem together. Through AppOnCloud program, we want to showcase the true potential of the developers and entrepreneurs in India by giving them an opportunity to build a killer app powered by Cloud. We are excited to have Mr. Yousef Khalidi as the keynote speaker for AppOnCloud conference.Yousef Khalidi is a Distinguished Engineer in the Windows Azure team. Windows Azure is a platform for developing, deploying, managing, and hosting cloud-based Web services. Khalidi is responsible for several aspects of the platform, centered on the goal of building a low-cost, automated, large-scale computing system, using commodity hardware, with efficiently managed shared resources. Before Windows Azure, Khalidi led an advanced development team in Windows that tackled a number of related operating system areas, including application model, resource management, and isolation. He also served as a member of the Windows Core Architecture group.

Before joining Microsoft, Khalidi was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems. During his 14 years tenure at Sun, he held several development, architecture, and management positions in Sun’s software division as well as in Sun Labs. Khalidi was Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect of Solaris, Chief Architect and Director of the Sun Cluster product line, Chief Architect of Sun’s N1 utility computing initiative, as well as a principal architect of Solaris MC and Spring operating systems. He shipped several releases of Sun Cluster and the Solaris operating system, and has worked on system management software, high speed networking, and memory management hardware designs.

AppOnCloud conference is scheduled for Mar14th at Bangalore and Mar16th at Mumbai. Click here to register!