Darren Erik Vengroff

Who is Darren Erik Vengroff?

Darren has spent his career building world-class computer systems in a variety of domains.

Most recently he was a principal engineer at Amazon.com with

responsibilities in personalization, automated email targeting,

time-series analysis, content platform architecture, attribute-based

navigation, search, and build and deployment systems.

Prior to Amazon.com, Darren spent six years at Goldman Sachs. As a

vice president, he was responsible for trading and risk management

systems that priced billions of dollars of derivative products for the

fixed income, currency, and commodity businesses. See "On Top of the

World: Goldman Sachs and the Culture of Risk," a cover story in The

Economist that discusses the role these businesses played in

distinguishing Goldman from its competitors.

Earlier in his career, Darren built the first microprocessor

simulator capable of booting and running a commercial operating system

under load. Prior to that, micro-architectural simulation was typically

done on user code only, or on static instruction stream traces.

Darren holds an Sc.M. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown

University, where he studied I/O-efficient algorithms with Jeff Vitter,

and a B.S.E. in Computer Science with Highest Honors from Princeton

University.