A history of successful innovation in databases, scalable appliances and supercomputing.

Management

Paul Mikesell

Founder / CEO / VP Engineering

Before starting Clustrix, Paul was the founder and Director of Engineering at Isilon Systems. He designed, architected, and developed all of Isilon's products while building the Engineering team from 0 to 50 people. Paul was responsible for many of Isilon's key patents. As Director of Engineering he was responsible for setting long term architectural goals, as well as maintaining a close relationship with Marketing, Sales, and customers to produce Isilon's extremely successful product roadmaps.

Prior to Isilon, Paul was Development Manager for all of RealNetworks infrastructure products, including RealServer, RealProxy/Cache, and the distributed Live Real Streaming system.

Paul has a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Washington.

Sergei Tsarev

Founder / Principal Architect

Sergei led the Internet Operations Systems Infrastructure team at AOL designing large scale monitoring and configuration management systems. Sergei's accomplishments include the Simple Time-series Database (STDB), a high performance data storage engine for operational monitoring metrics. STDB uses commodity hardware to linearly scale to hundreds of thousands writes per second. It has become the standard storage engine for network and host monitoring data for all of AOL, replacing traditional high end database infrastructure.

Sergei has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from University of Maryland -- College Park.

Scott Sullivan

Director QA & Operations

Since he first started programming in 1980, Scott has been a dedicated computer hobbyist and professional, leading teams and driving innovation for the past 18 years. Most recently at Infospace, he drove performance testing and service expansion for Cingular/AT&T and Verizon's mobile web portals. Previously, Scott directed Software Quality Assurance and Data Center Operations at Isilon Systems achieving enterprise reliability, resilience and quality across their clustered file storage product line.

Earlier roles at MusicNet, Wonderhorse, Getty Images, Microsoft, and Nintendo have kept Scott focused on building highly scalable, enterprise quality products and services.