Adrian Lienhard

I'm VP, Infrastructure Engineering at Scribd, previously Google, cofounder/CTO of @cmsbox, and received a PhD in computer science.

Leading the Infrastructure org at Scribd (returned to Scribd at end of 2018).

Software engineer at Google working on datacenter capacity planning automation for Google Cloud for 1.5 years.

I was a technical lead at Scribd for 5 years. Recommendations and payments were the major projects I built from the ground up and continued developing.

I was the CTO and a co-founder of Cmsbox, a startup providing a cutting-edge web content management system. Cmsbox was awarded by the Nielsen Norman Group as one of the 10 best designed applications of 2008.

I am also a co-founder of netstyle.ch, a company developing custom business web applications.

I received my PhD from the SCG, University of Berne, Switzerland in 2008. My main research field was the runtime analysis of object-oriented systems. One key result of my work was a novel, low overhead approach to back-in-time debugging by tracking object references in the VM.

I was a core contributor and board member of Pharo, a new open-source Smalltalk language and development environment.

I'm the author of the Traits implementation for the Pharo Smalltalk kernel. Traits have since been adopted by languages such as Scala, Perl 6 (known as "roles"), PHP (as of 5.4), and JavaScript (as a library)

I'm a co-author of SqueakSource, a source code repository server similar to Github