Killian has 17 years technology industry experience within startups and Fortune 100 IT organizations in roles encompassing engineering, management and strategy. As a Director in IT at Credit Suisse in New York for over 5 years, he was responsible for developing, integrating and deploying their private cloud management tools with over 20,000 virtual machines. The technology his team developed became the foundation for a successful Boston-based startup, DynamicOps. Following the success of this large scale deployment Killian managed cloud strategy in the CTO office until his departure in June 2009. He continues to work on internal cloud deployments in large enterprises.
During his work delivering internal private clouds, Killian pioneered important areas of internal cloud computing environments, including:
- Extensive end-to-end automation
- Business requirements for security, billing and organizational or regulatory infrastructure silos
- A self-service portal with fine-grained entitlements