Wil Tan

Country:	Australia
Website:	[Wil Tan Wil Tan]
LinkedIn:	[williamtan Wil Tan]
Twitter:	@dready

Wil Tan is the Chief Technology Office of Cloud Registry. He is also a member of Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel, ICANN (2009). He is a renowned expert in DNS, particularly in the fields of internationalized domain name (IDN) and registry operations.As a long-time IDN technology evangelist, he had been contracted to work in various internationalization projects. He was instrumental to the IDN support in the Firefox browser, and was the chief architect of the ISC IDN open source project.

His other specialities distributed and scalable systems, messaging infrastructure, networking and communications standards, open source software etc

Career History

• In December 2007, Wil Tan co-founded MojiPage, a mobile widgets startup, where he amassed vast insights into all aspects of the mobile Internet.

• In 2004, he consulted for NeuStar during the .NET rebid to develop a transitioning proposal for names in VeriSign’s IDN testbed.

• In 2005, Wil joined NeuStar as a technical consultant where he designed the internationalization architecture and policy for the extensible resource identifier (XRI) registry. He was later employed as a senior software engineer in the registry operations division where he was involved in all aspects of NeuStar’s registry systems managing over 3 million domain names across 7 TLDs. During his employment at NeuStar, Wil helped launch 14 IDN languages in .BIZ, including Chinese, Japanese and Korean. In order to support the intricacies of the languages, he designed the bundling policies and engineered the registry platform to support the bundling implementation.

• In May 2009, he co-founded Cloud and is currently serving as the CTO of the company.

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