Hakim Weatherspoon

Chief Scientist And Co-founder at Exostellar Inc.

Hakim Weatherspoon is currently the Co-Founder and CEO of Exostellar Inc., a startup focused on improving cloud-native application container performance, security, and cost. Prior to this role, they held various positions at Cornell University, including Professor, Associate Director for Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture (CIDA), Associate Professor, Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion for the College of Computing and Information Science, and Assistant Professor. Hakim also served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Washington. Earlier in their career, they worked as a Research Associate at Cornell University and as a Graduate Student Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. Hakim Weatherspoon started their academic journey as a student at the University of Washington.

Hakim Weatherspoon's education history includes a Bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the University of Washington, which they completed from 1995 to 1999. Hakim then pursued further studies and obtained a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, from 1999 to 2006.

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Ithaca, United States

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Exostellar Inc.

Exostellar, Inc. is a next-generation cloud resource optimization and management platform that uses cutting-edge distributed container infrastructure as well as Artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to help enterprises reduce spending in the cloud by up to 90%, while enhancing both operational security and performance We help enterprise companies achieve cloud optimizations and cost reductions without service interruptions. - Lower costs by up to 90% - No service interrupts, even for stateful applications - Support legacy applications without any modifications - Any cloud - AWS, google, Azure, VMWare, etc - Works for Kubernetes and cloud-native application containers - Reduce job completion time and improve customer experience


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11-50

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