Speaker Details

Dr. Barry McLarnon is a Systems Engineer with SAP Belfast, UK. He received an MEng in Computer Science in 2008 and a Ph.D. in systems management automation in 2013 from Queen’s University Belfast. 

As a member of the SAP Research team in Belfast during his Ph.D., he contributed software demonstrators and work package documentation to the XtreemOS and GEYSERS European Union projects based on his systems management research work. Since 2013, he has been involved in the development of internal SAP projects to automate the provisioning and deployment of Enterprise Cloud systems for internal and external customers. This work has included efforts to migrate the infrastructure management layer to an OpenStack backend shared between multiple internal Cloud solutions. His interests are in systems management, automation, open source development, solution integration, and cloud technologies.