Glen Wiley

Senior Director

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Biography

As senior director of systems architecture and infrastructure within Verisign’s Technology Services Group, Glen Wiley manages teams that are responsible for systems architecture and essential infrastructure that supports Verisign’s service delivery platforms. 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 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 help strengthen one of the world’s most critical internet operating systems. In addition to speaking at international conferences, Glen participates in standards organizations such as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).