Raymie Stata
Raymie Stata | |
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| Born | 1968 |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1996) |
| Occupation(s) | Engineer, corporate leader |
| Employer(s) | Yahoo! (former), Stata Laboratories (founder), Altiscale (founder) |
| Known for | Chief Technology Officer of Yahoo!, founder of Stata Laboratories and Altiscale |
Raymond Paul "Raymie" Stata is a prominent American engineer specializing in computer technology and an accomplished corporate leader.
Early life
Stata completed his undergraduate, master's, and doctoral studies in Computer Science and Engineering at MIT, earning his Ph.D. in 1996 under the mentorship of John Guttag. His father, Ray Stata, is the founder and chairman of Analog Devices.
Career
Following his doctoral graduation, Stata joined the Systems Research Center at Digital Equipment Corporation, where he contributed to the development of the AltaVista search engine. He later served as an assistant professor at the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz and worked in partnership with the Internet Archive.
In 2002, Stata established Stata Laboratories, which created the Bloomba email client utilizing search technology and the SAProxy anti-spam solution. Yahoo! acquired Stata Labs in 2004 for an undisclosed amount. Continuing his career at Yahoo!, he was appointed chief technology officer in 2010, a position he held until 2012. During his tenure, he co-invented a patented composition framework for cloud-based serving applications and was instrumental in integrating Apache Hadoop, recruiting its creators Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella.
After departing Yahoo!, Stata launched Altiscale, a company providing Apache Hadoop as a cloud service branded as "big data in the cloud." Gartner recognized Altiscale as a Cool Vendor in Big Data for 2015. In 2016, SAP acquired Altiscale for more than $125 million, with Stata acting as senior vice president of big data services for approximately one year.
Since 2018, Stata has been an advisor to Aqfer, a software enterprise specializing in data marketing solutions. He holds board positions at technology firms Vanu and Gamalon and serves on the advisory council of QuakeFinder, which focuses on earthquake prediction research. Until 2018, he was also a trustee at the Computer History Museum located in Mountain View, California.
Publications
- Stata, Raymie; Abadi, Martin (1999). "A type system for Java bytecode subroutines". ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. 21 (1): 90–137.
- Broder, A.; Kumar, R.; Maghoul, F.; Raghavan, P.; Rajagopalan, S.; Stata, R.; Tomkins, A.; Wiener, J. (2000). "Graph structure in the web". WWW Conference.
- Flanagan, Cormac; Leino, K. Rustan M.; Lillibridge, Mark; Nelson, Greg; Saxe, James B.; Stata, Raymie (2002). "Extended static checking for Java". ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 37 (5): 234–245.
- Kraft, R.; Stata, R. (November 2003). "Finding buying guides with a Web carnivore". Proceedings of the IEEE/LEOS 3rd International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices. pp. 84–92.