Vladimir Adam VP Software, Skyera

Skyera Inc. announced the hiring of 20-year industry veteran Vladimir Adam as its VP of software.

 Vladimir Adam has extensive experience architecturing, designing and developing embedded systems and application systems in the solid-state arena. He comes to Skyera from SandForce, where he delivered firmware for the first and second generations of SSD processors. As the company’s firmware engineering manager, he managed all aspects of the firmware lifecycle, including POR definition, development and validation.

Prior to SandForce, he was a senior development engineer and senior software engineer at Intevac, where he developed embedded firmware and software for high-performance ultra low-light cameras and systems. He has also served as a software developer and programmer at Altos Engineering and at various companies in his native Slovakia.

"Our philosophy at Skyera is to hire only the best people in the industry – with A+ people on our team, there’s no limit to what we can do," said Radoslav Danilak, CEO of Skyera. "Vlad is an A+ person, having delivered firmware for all the initial products at SandForce. With his extensive background in developing and delivering comprehensive software solutions in the solid-state industry and beyond, Vlad will help us deliver the best and most-tightly integrated software stack of any enterprise solid-state storage system on the market today."

Adam graduated with honors from the Technical University of Kosice in the Slovak Republic with a MS in Computer Science and Engineering.