Howard Pearlmutter



Cloud-centric Software Services


Providing strategic technology platform and planning advice;
Systems architecture, design, and prototyping;
plus hands-on coding, project implementation, tech transfer, training, tuning, mentoring, consulting, and strategic lifecycle support services.


Deep experience all along cloud evolution,
pioneering
(and presenting architecture seminars internationally since 1998 about)
minimizing sysadmin burden and bridging between Dev and Ops silos and the importance of Agility and DevOps and Asynchronicity and Containerization and Scalability and Resilience and Manageability and Observability and Ops Automation
since well before the birth of cloud-nativity...

J2EE/JavaEE/JakartaEE/Microprofile, EJBoss/JBoss/Wildfly/Thorntail/Vert.x/Mutiny/Quarkus, GoogleAppEngine/GoogleCloudPlatform, OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes, Fabric8, Knative, Jib, JKube, and many dozens more...
and the wider open source ecosystem around
Internet (IETF) + Web (W3C) + Java (JCP) + Cloud (CNCF)
open standards.


Strong capabilities on both front-end and back-end;
deep appreciation for web-centric cloud perspectives and enterprise-centric cloud perspectives;
substantial participation in both the CTO-centric world and the CIO-centric world.



I tune my professional services to your goals, your constraints, your priorities, and your people.

My development and consulting clients have included NASA, Xerox, Disney, HP, Apple, EPA, D&B, CBS, Kodak, Epson, Fujitsu, Valtech, DBR, Elixir, InterBit, CSC, Stereographics, SGI, Cable & Wireless, Unisys, SoftwareAG, Conexant, Symantec, SunGard, CapitalOne, Apax Partners, Bankers Trust, and The Financial Times.

I have also been paid to present (trainings, seminars, workshops, keynotes, briefings) to professionals from JPMorgan, GoldmanSachs, Intel, IBM, Sun Microsystems, EDS, CSC, Barclays, One2One, Orange, Reach, Amdocs, Nokia, Comverse, Earth Island Institute, Friends of the Earth, NASA, Xerox, SGI, Compaq, Motorola, and hundreds of other organizations ranging from large energy, environmental, financial, media, telecom, government, and industrial enterprises to entrepreneurs, startups, consultancies, and R&D organizations across 5 continents.