Company history
GridCentric was founded in January, 2009 in Toronto, Ontario. The founders are from the Computer Systems Lab at the University of Toronto. There, they worked on SnowFlock, the award-winning research project on which some of GridCentric's technology is based.
In September, 2009 GridCentric received investment from Rogers Ventures and joined their dynamic portfolio of companies.
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The management team
GridCentric is piloted by a collection of smart, high-energy individuals. Members of our team have worked together for years in developing new technologies.
Tim Smith
CEO

Tim’s ten years of industrial experience prior to founding GridCentric include four development and product lead roles, five software start-ups, one Fortune 100 company, and one University -- in areas as diverse as real-time embedded systems, mobile gaming, and computational biology. Tim holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and an M.Sc. in Systems and Networking, both from the University of Toronto.
Adin Scannell
CTO

Adin’s industry experience includes several start-ups as well as two industrial research labs. Adin holds a B.Math in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo and an M.Sc. in Systems and Networking from the University of Toronto, where he has taught Operating Systems courses and completed coursework towards a Ph.D. His research focus and expertize is in operating systems and networking.
Andres Lagar-Cavilla
Chief Scientist

Andres received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in August 2009. Throughout his research, Andres has worked on the applications of virtualization to cluster and high-performance computing, application migration, security, graphics acceleration, and cloud computing. Andres has obtained the NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship and the ACM Eurosys 2009 Best Paper Award.
Vivek Lakshmanan
Storage Lead

Vivek received an M.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Toronto, focusing on storage virtualization. As part of GridCentric, Vivek is building novel storage solutions that address the current and emerging storage needs of HPC clusters.
David Scannell
Deployment Lead

David has many years of industry experience working on small, medium and large scale enterprise software projects. He has in-depth knowledge on soliciting requirements to design and build an application from the ground up, managing the release process and supporting the application while in production. He graduated with an Hon. B.Sc. in Software Engineering from the University of Toronto.
Kannan Vijayan
Tools Lead

Kannan posesses a rare mix of low-level systems knowledge and experience in scientific computing. His industry experience includes work with compilers, embedded platform development and providing computational and bioinformatics support to research labs. He maintains an interest in high-level languages and tools. Kannan holds a B.Math from the University of Waterloo.

