Glen Wiley

Director of Research and Development

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Biography

As the Director of Research and Development for the CTO Technical Team, Glen leads a team that focuses on evolutions in the global DNS ecosystem and Internet protocols that provide the critical infrastructure that users have come to rely on. During his service as the Systems Architect for Verisign's .com/.net and A and J Root name servers from 2006 to 2013, Glen implemented a number of architectural changes to those services that continue to contribute to their long standing record of uninterrupted uptime. Glen joined the Verisign innovation lab in 2013 where he led a number of innovation efforts. He joined Verisign Labs research in 2015.

Glen has been working as a software professional since the late 1980s, and has held engineering positions at a number of important companies in telecommunications, Internet infrastructure and finance. Glen is a former enlisted member of the U.S. Army and National Guard, where he served as a Tactical Telecommunications Center Operator.

As a co-founder and co-chair of the bi-annual Verisign BSD Conference, Glen works hard to make sure that the brightest developers in the open source community have a good forum for the free exchange of ideas that strengthen one of the world’s most critical operating systems. In addition to speaking at international conferences, Glen participates in standards organizations such as the IETF and W3C.