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Van Biljon graduated from the University of Cape Town with a degree in Computer Science.
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He held engineering and research positions at LinkData, the Institute for Applied Computer Science and the National Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Van Biljon co-founded Mosaic Software. Mosaic built the Postilion payment system, the first high-end payment transaction switch for commodity hardware and operating systems (Windows).
Mosaic"s investors included General Electric and Paul Maritz.
The company became one of the top three payment processing software vendors in the world and was sold in 2004 to S1 Corporation
Van Biljon was at Amazon.com where, along with Chris Pinkham and Christopher Brown led the team that developed Amazon"s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Willem built the business plan for the service and was responsible for product management and marketing for the public cloud service.
In 2006, van Biljon left Amazon Web Services and later started a venture with Chris Pinkham. The company, Nimbula, was focused on Cloud Computing software and was funded by Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners.
In March 2013, Nimbula was acquired by Oracle Corporation.
In April 2014 van Biljon joined takealot.com, a Cape Town based ecommerce company as Company-Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer. Van Biljon co-authored two patent applications: "Managing Communications Between Computing Nodes", "Managing Execution of Programs by Multiple Computing Systems".
