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Raymie Stata
Born	Raymond Paul Stata Template:Birth year and age
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Occupation(s)	Engineer, technology executive
Years active	1996–present
Known for	Co-inventor of cloud-based application serving model; CTO of Yahoo!; founder of Stata Laboratories and Altiscale

Raymond Paul "Raymie" Stata is a prominent American engineer in computing and a corporate leader.

Early life

Stata completed his undergraduate, master's, and doctoral studies in Computer Science and Engineering at MIT, where he was mentored by John Guttag, graduating in 1996.

He is the son of Ray Stata, the founder and chairman of Analog Devices.

Career

Following his doctorate, Stata joined the Systems Research Center at Digital Equipment Corporation, where he contributed to the development of the AltaVista search engine. He later held an assistant professorship at the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz and worked alongside the Internet Archive.

In 2002, Stata established Stata Laboratories, which created the Bloomba e-mail client based on search technology and the SAProxy anti-spam tool. Yahoo! acquired this company in 2004. While at Yahoo!, Stata advanced to chief technology officer by 2010 and remained until 2012. During his tenure, he co-invented a patented model for cloud-based application serving and played a key role in integrating Apache Hadoop into Yahoo!'s infrastructure, recruiting its creators Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella.

After leaving Yahoo!, Stata founded Altiscale, a provider of Apache Hadoop as a cloud service branded as "big data in the cloud." Gartner recognized Altiscale as a Cool Vendor in Big Data in 2015. In 2016, SAP purchased Altiscale for more than $125 million, with Stata acting as senior vice president of big data services for approximately one year.

Since 2018, he has been an advisor to Aqfer, an enterprise software company focusing on product strategy and technology. Additionally, he holds board positions at technology companies Vanu and Gamalon.

Stata also provides guidance to QuakeFinder, an organization dedicated to earthquake forecasting, and was a trustee of the Computer History Museum until 2018.

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." In: Proceedings of the IEEE/LEOS 3rd International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices.