John Brennan

John Brennan brings more than 25 years of experience to his role of leading the hardware engineering team at Azul. John has led the development of highly scalable computer systems (up to 1024 CPUs) in addition to having led the development of state of the art microprocessors.

Prior to joining Azul, John was the Vice President of Engineering for Professional and Embedded Solutions at NVIDIA, leading a team which developed standalone Graphics solutions for use in professional workstations.

Prior to NVIDA, John was the Vice President of Engineering for Chelsio communications where he led both the HW and SW development of a 10Gbit ethernet protocol offload product.

Prior to Chelsio, John spent 4 1/2 years at Sun Microsystems where he was Vice President of Hardware Engineering for the midrange and highend server products. At its peak, this product line generated ~$4Billion of annual revenue which represented about 25% of the revenue for Sun Microsystems. While at Sun, John led the development of the Sun Fire 3800, 4800, 6800, E15k, E25k and their follow-on products.

Prior Sun, John spent 9+ years at Silicon Graphics where he led the development of the Origin 3000 server product line (a distributed shared memory machine which scaled up to 1024 CPUs). the development of the R10000 microprocessor, and the development of the R8000 microprocessor.

John has been in the computer industry since 1981; during this time he as always been involved in the development of either advanced CPUs or multiprocessor systems. He has worked Magnuson Computer Systems, Synapse Computer, Cydrome, and Tandem Computers.