Edward (Eddie) Bortnikov received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in 2008. His research interests broadly span theory and practice of distributed systems, networking technologies, OS internals and large-scale information processing.

Edward received his M.Sc. and B.A. (summa cum laude) degrees in Computer Science from the Technion in 1998 and 1995, respectively. Prior to zigzagging back to the academia in 2004, he was a senior developer at HP (formerly Tandem) Labs, working on the NonStop SQL database engine, a team lead at SANgate Systems, working on an enterprise-class clustering platform for storage applications, and a software architect at Mellanox Technologies, working on high-speed networking stacks and supercomputing technologies.