Pat Helland

Pat Helland has 25 years of experience in the software industry and has been an architect at Microsoft since 1994. He joined Amazon.com in March 2005, to work with WernerVogels, the new CTO of Amazon.com, on DistributedSystems architecture.

He has worked for more than 20 years in database, transaction processing, distributed systems, as well as fault tolerant and scalable systems. From 1982 through 1990, Pat worked at Tandem Computers and was the Chief Architect of TMF (Transaction Monitoring Facility), the NonStop? System’s Transaction Processing implementation. He was one of the founders of the team that implemented and shipped MTS (Microsoft Transaction Server) now COM+. He was the chief architect for Yukon’s SQL Service Broker product. In 2003-2004, Pat worked in Microsoft's Architecture Strategy Team where he has focused on loosely-coupled application environments and Service Oriented Architectures.

Presentations on ServiceOrientedArchitecture, DistributedTransactions, etc.:

2003 - http://www.pathelland.com/presentations/2003/index.htm 2004 - http://www.pathelland.com/presentations/2004/index.htm

(old) blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/pathelland/

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