Invited Track Speaker
    Dr. Jakob Blomer, CERN
    
   
  Jakob Blomer is a staff member in the scientific software group at CERN. He is the original author and lead developer of the CernVM File System. Jakob received a PhD in computer science from the Technical University of Munich in 2012.  Afterwards he was a Marie-Curie fellow at CERN and a visiting scholar at the RAMCloud research group at Stanford University. Besides his work on CernVM-FS, Jakob is involved in R&D on columnar data storage formats for high-energy physics collision data.