Darpan Dinker - Profile

Darpan Dinker - Vice President of Engineering for Schooner Information Technology

Darpan Dinker is responsible for Schooner's delivery of reliable, high-performance products. Darpan was the third employee at Schooner and has long been the driver behind Schooner's MySQL solution. Before Schooner, Darpan was principal investigator at Sun Microsystems Laboratories from 2004 to 2007. He led his team in pioneering explorations of workload characterization, modeling, prototyping, and validation of complex multi-tier clustered systems architectures to achieve order-of-magnitude improvements in price/performance and reliability. Before Sun Labs he led teams in Sun's middleware divisions to create the next-generation architecture for the iPlanet/Sun Application Server. He also worked on the development of J2EE server components such as EJB, Servlet/JSP, and the CORBA ORB container to bring Sun to leadership in price/performance. From 1998 to 2000, Darpan worked for Netscape Communications' worldwide professional services organization focused on e-commerce systems with Fortune 500 customers. Prior to Netscape, Darpan worked in software development roles for Fujitsu ICIM and Fujitsu New Zealand. Darpan has fourteen issued patents and several others pending in the fields of distributed and clustered systems. Darpan has a B.S. with Distinction in computer science from the University of Pune, India.