Caucho Technology
“Our engineering shop is focused on high performance and lightweight solutions for developers. We are excited to enhance Resin this year with an extremely useful CDI-based toolkit for administration, health and cloud support.” Steve Montal, Co-Founder.

Engineering Projects
QuercusCaucho’s implementation of PHP written in Java to improve performance, scalability and security of PHP applications HessianHessian is a fast, compact, binary protocol that not only outperforms XML-based remoting protocols like SOAP and XML-RPC but also meets or exceeds the performance of other binary protocols like ORMI and Java JNI |
Staff

Jay Berardelli, License Administrator
berardelli@caucho.com
Jay Berardelli joins Caucho as License Administrator. He brings over 10 years of accounting and customer service experience to Caucho where he will focus on license administration, billing, documentation and customer care. Jay is based in San Diego and works closely with our Sales & Marketing team where he will be involved in Caucho’s growing customer service programs. Previous to Caucho, Jay held the position of Office Manager overseeing full cycle accounting operations including business contracts and documentations. He holds a BA degree from Wilkes University.

Paul Cowan, Software Engineer
cowan@caucho.com
Paul Cowan joins Caucho as Software Engineer working on the Resin application server focusing on dependency injection, concurrency, high-speed messaging, and distributed caching. Paul comes to Caucho from NAVTEQ, where he was a senior architect in the Traffic.com division. He has 11 years of experience with Java and application servers, starting with NetDynamic, one of the first Java application servers. Paul is an open-source proponent, contributing to various projects, and is the author of an open-source database access library and an open-source game emulator server.

Scott Ferguson, Co-Founder and President
ferg@caucho.com
Scott Ferguson designed and wrote Resin. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering and a BA in Philosophy from Stanford University in 1990. His work includes leading JavaSoft’s WebTop server, creating Java servers for NFS, DHCP and DNS. He lead performance for Sun Web Server 1.0, the fastest web server on Solaris. Scott also worked on NEC’s Virtual Private Net (VPN) server. He developed formal analysis and circuit simulation CAD software for Intel. In his previous life when he actually had spare time, Scott has hacked cool software, including a Unix OS for PC’s (before Linux), an X windows replacement, and an object-oriented language with VM faster than Java.

Alexandra Garmon, Premier Customer Care Manager
garmon@caucho.com
Alexandra Garmon is the Premier Customer Care Manager of Caucho Technology. Her primary role is to keep engineers and managers, who are using Caucho products, up to date on the latest developments and technical road maps from our engineering shop. Alexandra works closely as a liaison between Caucho senior engineers and our customers to provide high priority customer care, budget planning and implementation of new Java features into existing deployments. Before joining Caucho, she was an academic researcher at UC Riverside and served as a Strategic Account Manager for companies such as Fujitsu and PerkinElmer. Alexandra has a BS Degree from The University of Melbourne and a post graduate Diploma from The Australian National University.

Steve Montal, Co-Founder and CEO
montal@caucho.com
Steve Montal is the co-founder of Caucho. He has a BA from Yale University and a Masters degree from UCLA. Montal runs business and corporate affairs for Caucho. His background includes consulting for Sprint, Interactive Multimedia Learning Technologies and launching programs at the American Film Institute and the University of North Carolina.

Theresa Nguyen, VP of Sales and Marketing
theresa@caucho.com
Theresa Nguyen is the Sales and Marketing Director of Caucho Technology. Her primary role is to develop initiatives and strategies focusing on product and service excellence to ensure 100% customer satisfaction. Prior to Caucho, she served as the Director of Business Development, where she was in charge of strategic business alliance, product development and software and hardware sales. Theresa holds a Human Development degree from UC San Diego with a concentration in education and neuroscience.

Reza Rahman, Software Engineer and Technology Outreach Advocate
reza@caucho.com
Reza Rahman is a Software Engineer and Technology Outreach Advocate for Caucho Technology. Reza is the author of EJB 3 in Action from Manning Publishing. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and Java user groups including JavaOne. Reza is an independent member of the Java EE 6 and EJB 3.1 expert groups. In 2010, Reza will be making major presentations and keynotes at JavaOne and TheServerSide Java Symposium Reza has over a decade of experience with technology leadership, enterprise architecture, application development and consulting. He has been working with Java EE since its inception, developing on almost every major application platform ranging from Tomcat to JBoss, GlassFish, WebSphere and WebLogic. Reza has developed enterprise systems for companies including Motorola, Comcast, Nokia, Guardian Life, Prudential, Independence Blue Cross, Citigroup, Accenture and GMAC using EJB 2, EJB 3, Spring and Seam. Reza holds a bachelors degree from Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania. He graduated Summa Cum Laude with a double major in Computer Science and Economics with a Minor in Mathematics.

Alex Rojkov, Computer System Analyst
alex@caucho.com
Alex Rojkov is a Senior Software Engineer at Caucho Technology. He joined Caucho in 2007 to work on Resin’s JSF implementation, Servlet 3.0, TCK for Servlet, JSP, JSTL, JSF as well as providing customer support. Alex worked in the field of programming since 1996 using various technologies and languages. His language of choice for the past 10 years is Java. Alex’s JDBCPersistence project is his contribution to Open Source Software. Alex holds a degree from Urals State Forest Academy, Russia.

Matthew H. Schwartz, Executive Vice President & General Counsel
Matthew H. Schwartz has served as General Counsel of Caucho Technology since its founding in 1998. In 2011, Matt was appointed as Executive Vice President of Caucho. In his expanded role, Matt is now responsible for general corporate management and strategic planning including the development of key alliances and global partnerships for the company. Matt is a member of the California State Bar and Georgia State Bar and maintains expertise in IP licensing, business litigation, employment law, commercial leasing and entertainment law. He graduated with highest honors from Brandeis University and holds a Master’s degree from the UCLA Graduate School of Theater, Film and Television. Matt received his JD from Pepperdine University School of Law with an ADR accreditation from the inaugural class of the internationally acclaimed Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution.

Sean Wiley, Java Account Associate
wiley@caucho.com
Sean Wiley joins Caucho as a Java Account Associate to help expand Resin application server awareness and adoption. As part of the Sales & Marketing team, his work also includes actively engaging with the Java community and assisting with marketing efforts of Resin technologies. Previous to Caucho, Sean held positions as an IT Analyst for Cisco, Database Programmer for Scripps Institute of Oceanography and Tier One Technical Support for Apple. He holds a BS in Computer Science from UC San Diego.






