Search Architect, Powerset

Mr. Walters (B.A. Symbolic Systems, Stanford University) brings extensive websearch knowledge and experience to the Powerset team. Before joining Powerset, Mr. Walters served as Websearch Architect for Yahoo!. In this role, he provided technical leadership spanning the Websearch organization with an emphasis on runtime query serving infrastructure. He was a key contributor and technical manager for the launch of Yahoo! Websearch's backend query serving infrastructure and led efforts which produced significant improvements in the performance, scalability, extensibility, and flexibility of the core query serving platform.

Mr. Walters also has expertise in online storage, virtual machines, and virtual memory. Prior to Yahoo!, Mr. Walters held leadership positions at i-drive.com/Anuvio Technologies and Connectix Corporation.

• Session: Web-scale Computing: Building Low-cost, Scalable Apps with Web Services

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