Gareth Bestor

Background

About Gareth Bestor

Principal Software Engineer with 15+ years industry experience in developing commercial systems management and cloud computing products; recognized industry expert in standards-based systems management involved in the research and development of virtualization management profiles for the ICT industry; collaborated with universities, US government research labs, and other ICT industry partners on enterprise-level open-source commercial products; extensive experience teaching undergraduate courses in computer programming, artificial intelligence and robotics. • Founded and developed software for open- source community-development projects • Systems architect, project lead and development lead in IBM for ICT product development • Software development and test in High Performance Computing division at IBM • Instructor in Computer Sciences Department at University of Wisconsin-Madison • Adjunct Assistant Professor at Vassar College Research and development areas • Cloud computing and virtualization • Enterprise-level, cross-platform computer systems management • Robotics, artificial intelligence and computer vision • Open source development • Application design and software development