Dr. Walfredo Cirne has worked on the many aspects of parallel scheduling and cluster management for the past 25 years. He is currently with the Technical Infrastructure Group at Google in Mountain View, California, where he leads Flex, Google's solution for resource management of its internal Cloud. Previously, he was faculty at the Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, where he led the OurGrid project. Dr. Cirne holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California San Diego, and Bachelors and Masters from the Universidade Federal de Campina Grande.
