Mike Dvorkin

Cloudist.

Summary

Management systems should follow rules of nature, not violate them. As it stands today, all management and control systems in existence operate on principles that are absolutely unnatural, to the point that, if applied to universe, the existence of matter and energy would not be possible if nature relied on such paradigms.

INTERESTS: Clouds. Statelessness. Policies. Automation. Virtualization. Chaos.

STRENGTH: Erudite understanding of distributed policy and model driven control and management systems.

GOAL: To create orchestration-free organic cloud management solution.

CONCLUSION: Industry is profoundly wrong about management of complex systems.

Specialties

Unconventional scalable distributed cloud, data centre, system, network, and data management and automation architectures with emphasis on policy and rule based control. Scalable control and policy planes. Order through embrace of chaos. Make robots write code for humans.

Experience

Distinguished Engineer at Cisco

May 2008 - March 2011 (2 years 11 months)

Management Software Architect at SAVBU - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Cloud Architecture - IaaS as a foundational building block for PaaS and SaaS - Cloud management standardization. OVF - Cloud and Datacenter management strategy - Policy-based management - Dynamic policy-based power control architecture. - Architecture for virtualization of network services. - System management architecture for UCS (Unified Computing System aka California) platform.

System Management Architect at Nuova Systems

April 2006 - March 2011 (5 years)

Management Software Architect

- One of co-architects of California Blade System - Architected Systems Management System for UCS

Nuova was bought by Cisco in 2008.

DCMS Principal Software Engineer/Systems Management Architect (XMS) at Xsigo Systems

October 2004 - March 2006 (1 year 6 months) Architected Xsigo's management solution.

NMS Architect (IPD: 7750SR, 7450ES, 5620 SAM + related) at