Sam Pullara is VP of Platform at Yahoo. Before that he was a Chief Architect at Borland after the acquisition of Gauntlet Systems in January 2006 , where Sam was CEO. Prior to that Sam was EIR at Accel Venture Partners. Before that, he was at BEA Systems where he designed and implemented numerous key features in all generations of BEA's flagship WebLogic product. He was the first server engineer hired at WebLogic, Inc. in 1996 and has worked on all aspects of the WebLogic Application Server. Highlights of his work include in-memory clustered session replication, the personalization system, and a web service stack. He has been involved in Java standards work related to J2EE, EJB, JSP, Servlets, caching, SOAP, and XML processing. He is also a technology leader and contributor to various open source Java components. Before WebLogic he did consulting work at TransUnion and Searle Corp. Sam earned a MS in Physics from Northwestern University and a Bachelors of Science degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.