CURRICULUM VITAE JASON A. HOFFMAN, PhD Born: June 21, 1973 Status: Married PRESENT POSITIONS CTO and Founder, Joyent Inc., Dec 2005-Present Director, Wordpress Foundation, May 2009-Present Principal, J.A. Hoffman & Co, Inc., June 2000-Present NARRATIVE REPORT "Jason is a Renaissance engineer who sees new market opportunities due to his breadth of knowledge and instinct for synthesis. He truly embraces change, happily creating or synthesizing several new technologies at once. He is also a joy to work with." -- Jeff Bonwick, Sun Fellow, Sun Microsystems and Creator of ZFS I am a "founding entrepreneur" type and specialize in revenue generation and all activities required to support it. I am a senior business executive and entrepreneur that focuses on technology. I have experience in strategy, operations, engineering, product, support, sales, corporate development and business development. Deeply experienced in intellectual property development, transfer and licensing. I'm told that I'm a "rare mix" of highly technical, innovative, experience-driven and a "natural sales guy". Highly technical across multiple fields (a systems scientist) with both a PhD in Molecular Pathology and experience with CTO/CIO roles. I have a demonstrated history of discovering new technologies and talent. I believe in working on hard times, going long and paying your own way. I'm able to function globally with extensive experience in APAC. I'm an expert in Performance and Scaling, Reliability and Resiliency across all aspects of a business: technology, applications, teams, collaborations, partnerships and business. PERMANENT MAILING ADDRESS 1819 Polk St. Box #157 San Francisco, CA, 94109 (415) 279-6196 jason@jasonhoffman.org EDUCATION PhD in Molecular Pathology (2003), UCSD Committee: Erkki Ruoslahti MD PhD, Chair, Marilyn Farquhar PhD, Co-chair, Web Cavenee PhD, David Cheresh PhD, Ted Friedmann MD, Jeff Smith PhD CPhil in Molecular Pathology (2002), UCSD MSc in Biochemistry (1997), UCLA BSc in Chemistry and Biochemistry (1996), UCLA PAST POSITIONS Advisor at geekSessions, Aug 2007-July 2008 President and Founder, Strongspace LLC., June 2005-Dec 2005 President and Founder, TextDrive Inc., June 2004-Dec 2005 Visiting Lecturer, UCSD Department of Pathology, Sept 1999-Sept 2005 Postdoctoral Associate, GNF, Sept 2003-Aug 2004 Visiting Graduate Student, Lab of Erkki Ruoslahti at the Burnham Institute, Sept 1997-Aug 2003 Chief Editor and Principal, SciEdit Inc., Aug 1998-Dec 2003 Master MCAT Trainer, The Princeton Review, Jan 1999-June 2005 Senior MCAT Chemistry Instructor, The Princeton Review, June 1997-June 2005 Consultant, The Burnham Institute and Targeted Molecules Corporation, Nov 2000-Aug 2001 Graduate Student Researcher, UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry, Division of Organic Chemistry, Aug 1996-June 1997 Teaching Assistant, UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry, Sept 1996-June 1997 Lab Assistant II, UCLA Biological Chemistry, May 1995-Aug 1996 CPR, BCLS, ACLS Instructor, St. Mary Medical Center, Apr 1991-Jul 1997 Emergency Medical and Trauma Technician, SMMC Emergency Dept. and Trauma (Level I) Center, Jan 1991-Jan 1995 FELLOWSHIPS and SUPPORT National Cancer Institute Pre-doctoral Training Grant T32 CA77109-05 (1/99-7/03) UC Regents Graduate Fellowship (9/97-1/99) UCLA Teaching Fellow (9/96-6/97) SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS Lianglin Zhang, Enrico Giraudo, Jason A. Hoffman, Douglas Hanahan and Erkki Ruoslahti (2006). Lymphatic zip codes in premalignant lesions and tumors. Cancer Res. 2006 Jun 1;66(11):5696-706 Lianglin Zhang*, Jason A. Hoffman*, and Erkki Ruoslahti (2005). Molecular profiling of heart endothelial cells. Circulation. 2005 Sep 13;112(11):1601-11. *Equal contribution cited Jason A. Hoffman, Pirjo Laakkonen, Kimmo Porkka, Michele Bernasconi and Erkki Ruoslahti (2004). In vivo and ex vivo selections using phage-displayed libraries. In Phage Display: A Practical Approach, T. Clackson and H. Lowman, eds. (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press). Jason A. Hoffman, Enrico Giraudo, Mallika Singh, Lianglin Zhang, Masahiro Inoue, Kimmo Porkka, Douglas Hanahan and Erkki Ruoslahti (2003). Progressive vascular changes in a transgenic mouse model of squamous cell carcinoma. Cancer Cell, 4(5), 383-391. Pirjo Laakkonen, Kimmo Porkka, Jason A. Hoffman and Erkki Ruoslahti (2002). A tumor-homing peptide with a targeting specificity related to lymphatic vessels. Nature Medicine, 8(7), 751-755. Kimmo Porkka, Pirjo Laakkonen, Jason A. Hoffman, Michele Bernasconi and Erkki Ruoslahti (2002). A fragment of the HMGN2 protein homes to the nuclei of tumor cells and tumor endothelial cells in vivo. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 99(11):7444-7449 PATENTS and PATENT APPLICATIONS Jason A. Hoffman, James Duncan, Mark G. Mayo and David P. Young Systems and Methods for Transparently Optimizing Workloads Pending US patent application ##########, filed Jason A. Hoffman, James Duncan, Mark G. Mayo and David P. Young Systems and Methods for Sizing Resources in a Cloud-based Environment Pending US patent application ##########, filed Mark G. Mayo, James Duncan, Pedro Palazon Candel, Jason A. Hoffman and David P. Young Managing Workloads and Hardware Resources in a Cloud Resource Pending US patent application 61/295,375, filed Mark G. Mayo, James Duncan, Pedro Palazon Candel, Jason A. Hoffman and David P. Young Provisioning Server Resources in a Cloud Resource Pending US patent application 12/696,619, filed Mark G. Mayo, James Duncan, Pedro Palazon Candel, Jason A. Hoffman and David P. Young Managing Hardware Resources by Sending Messages Amongst Servers in a Data Center Pending US patent application 12/696,802, filed Mark G. Mayo, James Duncan, Pedro Palazon Candel, Jason A. Hoffman and David P. Young Managing Workloads and Hardware Resources in a Cloud Resource Pending US patent application 12/696,334, filed Pirjo Laakkonen, Jason A. Hoffman, Kimmo Porkka and Erkki Ruoslahti. Peptides that home to tumor lymphatic vasculature and methods of using same Issued US patent 7,192,921 (issue date 3/20/07) Pending US patent application (provisional) 11/712,043 Pending European patent application 02795599.6 http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=61LNAAAAEBAJ Lianglin Zhang, Jason A. Hoffman, Erkki Ruoslahti Peptides that selectively home to heart vasculature and related conjugates and methods Pending US patent application 11/222,370, filed 09/07/05 Pending European patent application 05795216.0 Pending Chinese patent application (no serial number yet) Pending Japanese patent application (no serial number yet) Pirjo Laakkonen, Jason A. Hoffman, Kimmo Porkka and Erkki Ruoslahti. Lymphatic Zip Codes in Tumors and Pre-Malignant Lesions Pending US patent application 11/670,318, filed 06/14/05 Pending PCT patent application PCT/US2007/061480 INVITED TALKS Collaborative Applications SF Tech Sessions @CNET, San Francisco, CA, Feb 2006 Scale With Rails: Real-life capacity and deployment planning for small to large scale Rails applications. Silicon Valley Ruby Conference, Santa Clara, CA, April 2006 Scalability Rails Conf, Chicago, IL, May 2006 Scaling and System Design for Rails Applications, European Rails Conf, London, UK, Sept 2006 Collaborative Applications Under The Radar: "Why Office 2.0 Matters", Mountain View, CA, March 2007 Scaling a Rails Application from the Bottom Up Rails Conf, Portland, OR, May 2007 http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/rails2007/view/e_sess/11694 => "Note: this tutorial has sold out" Rails Scalability geekSessions, San Francisco, CA, May 2007 Global Scalability RailsConf Europe, Berlin, DE, Sept 2007 Why open up Solaris? Web 2.0 Summit, San Francisco, CA, 2007 Developing and Scaling Facebook Applications (5 talks in 5 venues) Microsoft Developer Series, Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa, Jan 2008 Scaling Facebook Applications SDForum Ruby Conference, San Jose, CA, Apr 2008 Scaling Opensocial Applications (8 talks in 8 venues) Google and Globant Developer Series, Tadil and Buenos Aires, Argentina, Apr 2008 Scaling Opensocial Google IO, San Francisco, CA, May 2008 Working the Clouds: NextGen Infrastructure for New Entrepreneurs (Panelist) Structure 2008, San Francisco CA, June 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY83H4ZQRmU Getting into the Cloud(s) Velocity Conference: Optimizing Web Performance and Scalability, Santa Clara, CA, June 2008 Ruby and Scalable Architectures Google Tech Talk, Mountain View, CA, July 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRf4bpEtI6I Building in the Clouds: Scaling Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Expo, New York, NY, Sept 2008 Scalability: Load, Geographical and Administrative Naspers MIH SWAT Technology Conference, Palo Alto, Nov 2008 The Future of Storage NetApp University Day, Sunnyvale, CA, Feb 2009 Cloud Computing for the Enterprise Enterprise 2.0, Boston, MA, June 2009 From Databases to Dataspaces (Moderator) Structure 2009, San Francisco CA, June 2009 Cloud Interoperability: Do we need it? What would it look like? Enterprise Cloud Summit at Interop, New York, NY, Nov 2009 A Reality Check on the Economics, Security and Resiliency of Enterprise Cloud Computing (Keynote) Interop, New York, NY, Nov 2009 Operations and Administrative Scale Velocity Summit, Jan 2010 Smart Computing and Scaling Online Games Game Developers Conference, San Francisco, CA, Mar 2010 The future of computing (keynote) Gluecon, Denver, CO, May 2010 How to Make Cloud Computing into Smart Computing Web 2.0, San Francisco, CA, May 2010 The Exascale Grail (Moderator) Structure 2010, San Francisco CA, June 2010 The New Alchemists Structure Big Data 2011, New York, NY, March 2011 Keynote: A conversation with Dave Hitz and Jason Hoffman Structure Big Data 2011, New York, NY, March 2011 Piecing together the next-generation of the cloud Structure 2011, San Francisco CA, June 2011 Open Clouds: Can anyone agree? A conversation with Jason Waxman (Intel) and Jason Waxman Structure 2011, San Francisco CA, June 2011 From openflow to virtualized networks (moderator) Structure 2011, San Francisco CA, June 2011 A Fireside Chat with Jason Hoffman HTML5 Dev Conf, San Francisco CA, Sept 2011 Keynote: Cloud computing as a macrotrend ICT Application 2001, Shanghai PRC, Sept 2011 Keynote: The important bits about the future of data Openstorage Summit, Santa Clara CA, Oct 2011 Leveraging the Cloud - The Telco Cloud Opportunity Next Generation Telecoms MENA Summit, Dubai UAE, Nov 2011 Seeding the Startups DevCon5, Santa Clara CA, Dec 2011 Seeing the Cloud Clearly DevCon5, Santa Clara CA, Dec 2011 The Importance of Accessibility and Open Source in Developer Adoption MongoSV 2011, Santa Clara CA, Dec 2011 INTERVIEWS A Conversation with Jason Hoffman: A Systems Scientist Looks at Virtualization, Scalability, and Ruby on Rails ACM Queue, January/February 2008 edition http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1348587