Parand Darugar

Parand Darugar is Director of Software Architecture, Yahoo! He is responsible for the adoption of scaling and grid technologies across the advertising business unit in Yahoo! In a prior role he managed the advertising platform groups, Yahoo! wide centers of expertise providing Java, Database, and other platform technologies across the company. He also served as a part of the core architecture team for Panama, a rebuild of Yahoo's major targeted advertising system.

Prior to Yahoo, Darugar was co-founder and Chief Architect of Blue Titan, a venture backed Web Services infrastructure software company. Blue Titan was sold to SOA Software in 2005. Before Blue Titan he was co-founder and Chief Architect of VelociGen Inc, a venture backed Web application acceleration and scaling software company.