Dan Teodosiu
Vice President of Engineering, VirtuOz SA
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Dan has over 20 years of experience leading the development of successful consumer and enterprise software and services in Silicon Valley, Seattle and Europe.
As the VP of Engineering for VirtuOz, Dan built a top-notch engineering and operations team and managed it through an agile release cycle. He redefined product direction and architecture to provide great value for customers through scalability and superior self-service and analytical capabilities.
Between 2006 and 2008, Dan founded and built a development hub for Microsoft in Ireland. He hired a top-notch team of over 50 people and managed it through several successful release cycles. Products shipped included mobile Hotmail, mobile infrastructure, edge computing, and datacenter management.
Previously, Dan was an architect in Windows Live where he evangelized, secured top-level executive funding, and led the s-drive initiative to deliver a set of highly innovative products. These included Sharing Folders, one of the largest secure P2P file sharing networks.
Prior to MSN, Dan was an architect in Windows Server, where his team shipped the Distributed File System and File Replication Service in 2003, and developed DFSR, a state of the art file replication service that is a key component of the branch office support in Windows Server.
Dan joined Microsoft in 2002 through the acquisition of XDegrees, a Bay Area start-up he co-founded to develop a P2P solution for secure file sharing.
Prior to XDegrees, Dan co-founded and led the engineering for Xift, a search engine and automatic directory construction technology.
Before Xift, Dan defined and helped build the first version of the Virtual Partitions product while at Hewlett-Packard Labs. Some of Dan's prior experience includes working for Alcatel Research in Europe.
Dan holds a PhD and MS from Stanford University. He has filed numerous patents in areas including peer-to-peer file sharing, file replication, and scalable storage systems.
14 contactsBuilt a top-notch engineering team and managed it through an aggressive release cycle, delivering a conversational agent service with superior self-service and analytical capabilities.
Redefined product direction and architecture to build a scalable service that can support tens of millions of conversations annually and provide great value for our customers.
Drove the development of an industry-leading AutoLearn/Voice of the Customer technology and filed several patent applications.
Built the operations team from scratch and rapidly improved service reliability by orders of magnitude.
2006 - 2008Secured executive support and funding for creating a Windows Live development hub in Dublin, Ireland. Put in place the recruiting processes and hired a top-notch team of 50 people.
Worked with partner teams in Redmond to identify and drive several development projects, including mobile Hotmail, key components of the Windows Live mobile browse platform, mobile applications, edge computing and datacenter management infrastructure, and advanced visualizations for web analytics.
Managed the team, helped architect, and shipped high quality deliverables over several release cycles.
2005 - 2006Defined, evangelized, and secured top-level executive buy-in and funding for s-drive. Put in place an aggressive execution plan and launch strategy. Built and led a virtual team of over 50 people.
Shipped Sharing Folders as part of Windows Live Messenger 8.0, a secure peer-to-peer file sharing solution that had an active user base of 40 million six months after launch.
Designed and developed two additional Windows Live products related to online storage and remote data access that have been integrated into Live Mesh.
Evaluated potential acquisition targets and managed the acquisition of FolderShare.
2002 - 2005Analyzed customer requirements and drove the definition of the new Branch Office market segment for Windows Server 2003 R2.
Built the team, architected, and led the implementation of two key products for supporting the Branch Office and several other scenarios in R2 and Vista: DFSR (Distributed File System Replication) and RDC (Remote Differential Compression).
Shipped DFS (Distributed File System) and FRS (File Replication Service) in Windows Server 2003 and significantly improved customer satisfaction with these products.
Defined and shepherded advanced development projects with Microsoft Research in Redmond, Beijing, and Silicon Valley on self-organizing storage systems, protocol modeling, and differential compression.
Filed numerous patent applications and worked on licensing and IP issues.
As a senior interviewer, drove the recruiting efforts and made the hiring decisions for several teams, conducting several hundred interviews.
2000 - 2002Raised $8M of Series A funding from Redpoint Ventures. Recruited a top-notch executive and engineering team of 31 people.
As the interim VP of Engineering, managed 17 engineers through the first product release cycle and the deployment of XDegrees’ co-located infrastructure.
Contributed significantly to the definition of XDegrees’ market positioning, business development strategy, and customer contacts.
Architected and led the implementation of a highly scalable, cost-effective, and secure alternative to VPNs and extranets. Filed 13 U.S. and international patent applications.
1999 - 2000Recruited Xift’s development team and successfully led the implementation and launch of Xift’s search engine and automatic web directory.
Architected a distributed infrastructure for Web crawling, automatic concept hierarchy construction, page indexing and ranking, and query serving.
Managed the planning, co-located deployment, and operations of Xift’s processing infrastructure.
1998 - 1999Developed the strategy for the vPars (Virtual Partitions) product line for HP SuperDome platforms. Designed and led the implementation of the first version of the vPars product.
Contributed to the definition of the high-availability hardware features for next-generation HP platforms.
1994 - 1998Dissertation: “End-to-end Fault Containment in Scalable Shared-Memory Multiprocessors” (advisor Prof. Mendel Rosenblum).
Solved a core reliability problem of current shared-memory multiprocessors: their inherent vulnerability to any hardware or operating system faults.
Designed and implemented two operating systems (Cellular Disco and Hive) and the hardware support for fault containment in the Stanford FLASH multiprocessor.
