Mark Zbikowski, former Microsoft Architect and software developer with three decades long industry experience, today joined Jelastic as a Senior Technical Advisor. In this job role, Mark will assist Jelastic as a resource to the development team and advisor to senior management.
I´m excited to be working with the great development team at Jelastic. They have created an extremely interesting and high quality product.– Mark Zbikowski.
Zbikowski holds a bachelor´s degree from Harvard in applied mathematics and master´s degrees from Yale and the University of Washington.
In past, he spearheaded efforts in MS-DOS, made significant contributions to OS/2, Windows NT and Cairo. He was development lead and manager for Microsoft’s MS-DOS 2.0, a position he held through DOS 4.0.
His first major contributions were the addition of hierarchical directory structure to DOS 2.0 and installable device drivers. He also designed the DOS executable file format.
Zbikowski was Microsoft’s first employee (excluding Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer) to be honored for 25 years of service in 2006. The breakthrough concept of Installable File System in OS/2 is attributed to him.
He is also one of the key developers of Windows NTFS and Windows 2000/XP/Vista.
“I´m excited to be working with the great development team at Jelastic. They have created an extremely interesting and high quality product,” said Mark Zbikowski.
“We are very happy to have Mark as part of the Jelastic team. He is not only one of the innovators in system software, his expertise and advice is invaluable,” said Dmitry Sotnikov, COO, Jelastic.
‘Mark´s experience in his prior work has always been about platforms that are high performing, run at large-scale, handle any applications, and at the same time are easy for users. Jelastic is the platform that makes automated hosting and scaling of applications easy without code changes required. Mark should feel right at home,” he added.
