James Cowie

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Biography

Mr. James Cowie serves as Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer and Managing Director at DeepMacro. Previously, he served as Chief Scientist at Dynamic Network Services. Prior to joining Dyn, he was the founder and CTO of Renesys, the Internet Intelligence Authority, which Dyn acquired in 2014. He has more than 20 years of entrepreneurial and software development experience in high-performance computing, network modeling and simulation, web services, and security. Prior to founding Renesys, he was a principal at Cooperating Systems, a consulting services company that provided rapid software prototyping and technology planning for advanced research and development in academia and industry. With a long-standing interest in the Internet's impact on security and collaboration since 1995, he authored the first web-based collaborative environment for cryptographic key factoring. He is the primary architect of SSFNet, the first open-source network simulation framework to support transparent parallelization and multiprocessor execution. He holds a B.S. in computer science from Yale University. He also served as a Member of the Program Committee at NANOG.