Donald Ferguson
Synopsys Fellow at Synopsys Inc
Town of Lewisboro, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDonald Ferguson is a seasoned technology leader and architect who currently serves as Technical Fellow and Corporate Chief Software Architect as well as VP & GM for Cloud, Solutions, and Enablement at Ansys. He combines deep research pedigree—formerly an IBM Fellow and Microsoft Technical Fellow—with hands-on startup experience as Co-Founder and CTO of SparqTV/Seeka TV, bridging enterprise product strategy and cloud-native engineering. An adjunct professor of computer science at Columbia University, he mentors the next generation while steering large-scale software and cloud platforms in industry. His career includes CTO roles at Dell and CA Inc., demonstrating a rare ability to translate cutting-edge research into commercial software at scale. Based in Lewisboro, NY, he also served as a junior officer in the New York Guard, reflecting a commitment to public service beyond tech. Known for blending academic rigor with practical product delivery, he focuses on scalable, secure cloud solutions and developer enablement.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), MS, Ph.D., Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA), MS, Ph.D., Computer Science at Columbia University
Github Skills (9)
cloud-application10
backend10
database9
microservices9
databases9
mobile8
cloud-computing6
angular6
fastapi3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
donald-f-ferguson/Intro-to-Databases-F22
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
W4111 - Introduction to Databases course, Columbia University, Fall 2022
Contributions:47 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
databasedatabases
donald-f-ferguson/w4111-Databases
Jan 2018 - Dec 2019
COMS W4111 - Introduction to Databases
Contributions:123 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
databasedatabases
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