As a high-tech software commercialization engine, AetherWorks founds and funds companies around our core area of expertise: high-efficiency distributed software systems.
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Originally from Westport, CT, Robert received a B.Sc. Honours (First Class) in Computer Science from the University of St Andrews in 2005.
In tandem with ventures in online gaming software and location-based advertising, Robert completed his post-graduate research at the University of St Andrews and was awarded his Ph.D. in 2010 for a thesis entitled “A Scalable Architecture for the Demand-driven Deployment of Location-neutral Software Services”.
Robert returned to the U.S. in 2010 to start AetherWorks with the goal of creating an environment in which he could continue to engage in scientific research while developing and growing businesses around its advances.
In his free time Robert plays as a goalkeeper in a New York soccer league, is an avid golfer and serves as a member and treasurer of the board of trustees of the University of St Andrews American Foundation.
Originally from Glasgow, Scotland, Allan is a seasoned entrepreneur with a background in computer science. He received a B.Sc. with Honours in Computer Science from the University of St Andrews in 2005. Allan won the 2005 Scottish Institute for Enterprise award for “Best Overall Business” and later founded his first company, ITOnsite, which he sold in 2007. In 2008 Allan joined the management team at Kelvin Connect, a mobile data and information management software firm. After seeing the company through its acquisition by Airwave Solutions in 2011, Allan moved to New York to join AetherWorks.
Allan remains an active investor in a number of ventures in the UK, most notably the Ingenium Academy. He is an accomplished musician, has played with the Royal Northern Philharmonic, and is a supporter of children’s music education through the Fife Horn Union, a charitable organization based in Scotland.
Originally from Glasgow, Scotland, Angus received a B.Sc. Honours (First Class) in Computer Science from the University of St Andrews in 2007. During this time he collaborated on research on middleware systems, and was an award winner at the 2007 Scottish Young Software Engineer of the Year Awards for his work on Web Service Composition.
Angus was awarded his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of St Andrews for a thesis entitled “The Architecture of an Autonomic, Resource-aware, Workstation-based Distributed Database System”. He continues his work in autonomic, fault-tolerant distributed systems as Director of Research at AetherWorks, and he currently guides the implementation of AetherStore.
At AetherWorks we utilize a short research cycle to explore the commercial viability of bleeding-edge technology. Keeping up to date with various fields of research gives us plenty of opportunities to learn, play, and come up with exciting new ideas – or new solutions that combine existing work in new and innovative ways. We find that being afforded the space to look at things from different angles and quickly test ideas yields spectacular results.
Some of our areas of current research include: scalable autonomic storage networks, demand-driven software service deployment architectures, byzantine fault-tolerance, and distributed consistency algorithms.
We believe that software should make your life easier, not harder, and that with quality engineering it is possible to create software that doesn’t fail. Period.
At AetherWorks we’re currently making:
(Patent Pending)
Most companies only use a fraction of the space on their workstation hard drives – AetherStore is a software-based data storage solution that ties together this un-utilized space into an affordable, reliable, and secure shared storage system. AetherStore combines existing methods of data storage to harness their benefits while minimizing their drawbacks: it provides the write speed of a local drive, the shared storage of a networked server, and the long-term backup, remote access, and disaster-recovery guarantees of web-based storage.
(Patent Pending)
ActiveAether is a platform for the dynamic deployment and runtime management of a heterogeneous, multi-endpoint software service infrastructure. The ActiveAether model enables the deployment of software services that can be reliably addressed, bound to, and utilized, at any time and from any location. It eases the tasks of providing a software service by consuming deployment and management tasks, and it eases the development of consumer agent applications by letting developers program against what a service does, not where it is or whether it is currently deployed.
For hosts of software services, ActiveAether enables the efficient consumption of hosting resources by providing mechanisms to dynamically apply and reclaim resources based upon consumer demand, and ‘spill over’ into other resources pools (such as, for example, a public ‘cloud’). ActiveAether automates the deployment and scaling of software services so you don’t have to.
If you feel the same way, we encourage you to apply for one of our available positions. We’re looking for highly-skilled software engineers with a broad practical and theoretical knowledge of Computer Science.
We are always looking for talented engineers with a passion for developing next generation distributed systems. If you share that passion, we'd love to talk to you -- email us at jobs@aetherworks.com.
If you're not currently looking for work, we are opening our offices to a monthly research group, discussing the latest developments and research in distributed systems. If you're interested in joining us, email Shannon Cody at scody@aetherworks.com.
We are currently hiring for the following positions:
Interested in learning more about working at AetherWorks? Read our Director of Research's blog post "What We Do" on what it's like to work at AetherWorks and what we look for in a candidate.
We are looking for interns that are eager to gain experience working in an entrepreneurial environment. At AetherWorks, you will be exposed to multiple aspects of running a start-up and will be encouraged to share and implement innovative ideas.
We are currently hiring interns for the following positions:
Marketing and Communications Intern
Venture Development Summer Associate
AetherWorks is based in the heart of midtown Manhattan, with views over Bryant Park and the New York Public Library.
As a small team of experts we believe that constant, clear communication amongst project members is key to our success. Working in small groups, every employee is expected to take on and manage various responsibilities – nobody here is ‘just another programmer.’
If you have any questions about the types of roles that we have available, please email us at jobs@aetherworks.com. We’d love to hear from you.
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Please contact Ms. Shannon Cody by email at scody@AetherWorks.com or by telephone on +1 (212) 518-1155.