Matt Ahrens co-founded the ZFS project in 2001, and is now the ZFS engineering team lead. He has a degree in computer science from Brown University.

Chris is the Director of Solaris Revenue Products Engineering (RPE) for EMEA, based out of the UK. RPE is part of the Solaris engineering organisation, within Sun's Software business unit. The RPE team are primarily focused on the ongoing sustaining engineering of the shipping releases of Solaris, although a good portion of the time is also spent working on the next release of Solaris. The tight integration and co-operation with the New Product Engineering (NPE) team is one of the key success factors of Solaris.

The team is very much a true example of global engineering being split equally across the three geographic regions that SMI operates in - AMER, EMEA and APAC. Chris himself has members of his team in each one of those three geographies. This he is sure is one of the factors that leads his wife to believe that the UK is just another hotel he stays in for a time during the year.

The RPE team provide 24 x 7 source code engineering level expertise on the Solaris operating system. If you have an issue that needs code level expertise, including source code changes, delivered at 2am Pacific time on Christmas Day its likely you'll be working with someone in the Solaris RPE team. The team also owns a large number of the areas within Solaris that Sun is no longer doing active development on, such as UFS and SVM. This combines with working closely with our NPE colleagues on the latest and greatest parts of Solaris like ZFS and FMA makes the RPE organisation a particularly challenging and exciting team to be part of.

Chris joined Sun in 1999 and has over 16 years of experience in the industry including software engineering of operating systems and application software for military usage. He has a BSc (HONS) degree in Computing Science from Staffordshire University. When he is not working he is married with two children, a dog, a cat and rabbit and enjoys Amateur Dramatics in what little spare time he has left.

Madhan Balasubramanian has worked in Services, Solaris Cluster Manager and Data Service Configuration Wizards since joining Sun in 2005. His areas of interest are High Availability & System Management tools. Madhan regularly participates in product design discussions and reviews and helps partners port their Applications to Solaris Cluster. Prior to joining Sun, he worked for Oracle Corp. on Networking and Enterprise Manager products.

Chris Beal is a Senior Staff Engineer working with Solaris Revenue Product Engineering. This team fixes the bugs found by customers. As a kernel engineer is the team chris has resolved many critical customer issues in areas as diverse as filesystems, predicitive self healing, scheduling and virtualization. As the lead engineer in the team Chris encourages the team to work the new and exciting technologies in OpenSolaris. Chris is curentley working on implementing solaris 10 on the Xen Hypervisor platform.

Russell Blaine has been a developer in the Solaris Kernel group at Sun for six years. His areas of expertise include virtualization technologies, Solaris on x86 and AMD64, CPU performance counters, system call interfaces, and interrupt management. He most recently completed work on the BrandZ project, bringing linux emulation to Solaris Zones. He came to Sun in 2000 after receiving a BSE in Computer Science from Princeton University. and Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL).

Before he joined Sun, Erik worked at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science.  He holds degrees from Linkoping University, Stanford University, and Uppsala University.

David Bustos is a senior engineer in the Solaris SMF team. He has worked in the Solaris Core OS group for five years. After helping implement SMF in Solaris 10, he is now working on the next major improvement to SMF as the leader of the Enhanced SMF Profiles project.

Professionally, I've been an engineer nearly twenty years. I graduated from University of Virginia computer science department. While I can't claim to have worked on a punch card machine, they did wheel out the last punch card machine out of the computer center my first year at UVA.

Since then, I've worked in several different companies, mostly storage and/or Unix related, from IBM to Adaptec, to a startup called Chaparral (now part of Dot Hill), and now Sun. All were good in their own ways, although I do particularly enjoy Sun.

In early 2006 I had an opportunity to come to China to do some training for several months. I jumped at the idea, and liked it enough that I decided to stay. I spend time outside of work studying an MBA at Peking University. I feel very fortunate to have met my wife here, a wonderful Chinese woman.

Roger Dong Yudong is a Senior Manager for Solaris Storage group in China Our group is responsible for both SCSI and Fiber Channel framework in Solaris. Currently, we are working in 4K block size support and Fiber Channel port visualization projects. We also have some engineers doing research on Tape self identification and Fiber Channel Over Ethernet projects. Beside these two teams, we are also responsible for the release engineering work in Solaris storage gate.

Glenn Faden is a Distinguish Engineer in the Solaris Security Technologies Group, and has worked at Sun for 19 years. He is currently the architect for Solaris Trusted Extensions, and was one of the architects for Trusted Solaris and Role-Based Access Control. He designed Sun's multilevel desktops based on Open Look and CDE, and is currently an advisor to the team developing Trusted JDS. Glenn has made extensive contributions to the Solaris security foundation, including Access Control Lists, Auditing, Device Allocation, and OS Virtualization. He also developed the RBAC and Process Rights Management tools for the Solaris Management Console. He has authored several articles for Sun's Blueprints website, and the Solaris Developer Connection.

Glenn previously worked for Qubix, OmniCad, and Gould Computer Systems in Desktop Publishing and OS development. He has an MS in Computer Science from Florida Institue of Technology.

Valerie Anne Fenwick is a Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems with over a decade of experience in computer security. Valerie is currently working on making the Solaris Cryptographic Framework, of which she was a designer and major contributor, FIPS 140 compliant. She is a sponsor for the OpenSolaris project and was a leader in redefining the software bugtracking strategy and processes used across Sun today. Previously Valerie was the technical lead for the release of Solaris 10 1/06 and was responsible for NAT implementation as well as other network security features of the SunScreen firewall. Valerie has an B.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University. In her spare time, she enjoys performing at community theaters, riding her bike, and skiing.

Jim Grisanzio is the Community Manager on the OpenSolaris Project. He is based out of the Sun's Tokyo office and works for the company's OpenSolaris kernel engineering organization in California. He has managed multiple community-development efforts at Sun, and he has a background in technical communications and project management. He blogs at http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris

Guenter Ressel-Herbert received a Diploma in Nuclear Physics from University of Mainz, Germany, in 1986. He received a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics from Technische Hochschule Darmstadt in 1991. His scientific work was focussed on design and implemetation of high speed data acqusition and analysis systems for nuclear physics experiments. He is currently Staff Engnineer at Sun Microsystems Germany, located in Frankfurt/Main. At Sun his early activity was Solaris Kernel sustaining engineering with focus on filesystems and volume management. Later, he changed to UFS engineering and studied resilience aspects of filesystems. Next, he started sustaining engineering for SunCluster 3.x with special focus on PxFS and cluster transport. Guenter is currently introducing the sustaining engineering model for Sun Grid Engine.

Wyllys is a Senior Staff Engineer in the Solaris Security organization. He joined Sun in October 2000 and has since worked on a variety of security related projects. During his time at Sun he has worked on the Kerberos codebase and was the tech lead for updating many native Solaris network utilities to use Kerberos. He has worked on parts of the cryptographic framework and most recently has been focusing on creating a set of unified key management interfaces for Solaris. He has over 10 years of experience in internet and computer security. Wyllys has a BS in Computer Engineering from Lehigh University and an MS in Computer Science from Virginia Tech.

Jatin is a Software Engineering Manager in the Sun Cluster group. His past roles in over 7 years at Sun include that of a Tech Lead and developer. He has a lot of experience in in the integration of applications with Sun Cluster. Jatin is also involved behind-the-scenes in the Open HA Cluster effort.

Before Sun, Jatin spent 4 years working for Computer Associates' interBiz Supply Chain Group and at Computervision R&D, India.

Jatin has a Masters degree in Computer Science from University of Pune (India), and a Masters degree in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay (Mumbai)." /p>

Meenakshi Kaul-Basu is the Director of Engineering, Availability Products Group in Sun Microsystems. She has worked with the Solaris Cluster product for over 8 years and was responsible for the first two r eleases of Open High Availability Cluster on OpenSolaris. In addition to working at Sun, Meenakshi has worked at Texas Instruments, Siemens Communications and Wipro.

Meenakshi holds a BS from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and a MS in Electrical Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Science (IISc). She enjoys outdoors and is a marathoner.

Phil Kirk is a Solaris Revenue Product Engineering (RPE) Networking Engineer supporting and sustaining the Solaris Operation System, addressing bugs and problems found by customers. Having worked at Sun for the last 11 years in various different roles, Phil has a lot of experience in handling a diverse range of customer problems. As well as working in RPE, Phil is part of the Clearview project I-team (http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/clearview/) working on the IP observability component of this project.

Steve is a software engineer in the Solaris Kernel Development group at Sun Microsystems. He is currently part of the OpenSolaris engineering team, and has been working on issues such as SCM (Source Code Management), build issues, and anything else to try and facilitate open development. He is also working part-time with the Kernel Performance group in the areas of CMT, NUMA, and scheduling.

Prior to joining Sun, Steve received his B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science (High Performance & Parallel Computation) from the University of California, San Diego.

In his childhood Leonid Lenyashin got addicted to math and successfully participated in different math competitions. He got his Master degree in Mathematics from St. Petersburg State University in 1992 and started his own business in the area that had no connection with math or computer science. Since 1995 Leonid started as a software engineer and worked on various telecommunication projects written in C and C++. After being with such companies as Motorola and Deutsche Bank, in 2004 Leonid joined Sun Microsystems as a manager of newly formed group in charge for performance analysis of Sun Studio compilers for x86/64 platforms. Later on Leonid also took a lead in Sun Studio IDE development and recently started a new project - Sun Studio Installer. Leonid is a experienced speaker at Sun Tech Days and frequently represents Sun Studio in front of Sun customers and partners.

Oleg Mazurov received a M.S. in Applied Mathematics from Tomsk Polytechnic Institute, Russia. After graduation, he worked in the Siberian Scientific Center developing compilers and tools for the Russian supercomputer Elbrus. He joined Sun Microsystems in 1997 and worked on performance tools for the Sun Studio Performance Tools since then. Besides performance tools, his interests include applications of error-correcting codes, on which he has written papers published in Russia and the USA.

I recived a BSc in Computer Science from National University of Ireland, Galway in 1996. I went on to receive a Masters in High Performance Computing from Trinity College Dublin in conjuction with some research work at Hitachi Dublin Labs. I've been at Sun since 1999 with the Performance Team in Dublin. My team monitors the ongoing performance of development versions of Solaris (nevada, updates etc) as well as various other Sun products (network/storage, compilers, java, webservers etc). I'm currently a staff engineer with the Performance Group in Dublin Ireland.

I graduated from the UCSD EE department with a BS in computer engineering in 1998. I joined Sun in 1999, moving into the Solaris kernel IO group in 2001. In 2007 I moved to the Solaris Zones / Containers group. I've worked on the Solaris 10 release staff, managed internal solaris testbed server development with thousands of users, was the technical lead for the LDI interfaces project. I've also worked on the Zones infrastructure, BrandZ, and the lx brand. Currently, i am finishing up the Etude project which leverages BrandZ to support virtualizing and consolidating Solaris 8 systems onto Solaris 10.

As Vice President of Sun's Solaris Storage and Availability Software Group, Bob Porras leads a global organization that is focused on the delivery of Solaris core storage products and technologies. This includes all storage products for NAS, SAN and Object based environments. In addition, the organization delivers storage components into Solaris such as ZFS, QFS and pNFS file system technologies, Storage Archive Management, Sun Grid Engine, HPC and Sun Cluster software.

Previous to Sun, Bob served in Vice President and Director roles at both startup and public companies including: Accolade Technology, Vitesse Semiconductor, Sycamore Networks, Compaq, Digital and Mitre. His experience spans storage, servers, intelligent optical switches, operating systems and semiconductors.

Bob holds a MBA from Lesley College, a MS in Computer Science from Boston University and a BS degree in Engineering from Northeastern University.

William Roche is a Solaris Revenue Product Engineering (RPE) Kernel Engineer supporting and sustaining the Solaris Operation System, addressing bugs and problems found by customers. Having worked at Sun for the last 10 years in various different roles, William has a lot of experience in handling a diverse range of customer problems.

Scott Rotondo is a Security Architect for the Solaris operating system at Sun Microsystems. In ten years with the Solaris engineering organization, he has managed or contributed technically to the development of numerous Solaris security technologies. Scott is Sun's primary representative to the Trusted Computing Group, where he serves on the Board of Directors and the Technical Committee.

I'm a Senior Systems Engineer in OEM Software Sales group in Japan. I have been supporting Solaris OEM (non-Sun platform) customers over 10 years since I joined SunSoft in 1997 as a System Engineer. I am also providing Solaris Japanese installation guide for beginners in my blog- http://blogs.sun.com/sasanuma/

Nicholas Solter is the technical lead of the Solaris Cluster open-sourcing effort and the facilitator of the HA Clusters community on OpenSolaris. His Solaris Cluster development work over the past 6 1/2 years at Sun Microsystems has included designing and implementing support for Solaris features such as SMF and zones. He holds BS and MS degrees in computer science from Stanford University, and is the author of “Professional C++” (Wrox, 2005).

Scott Tracy is the Director of Storage Area Network Engineering, working for Sun’s Solaris Division. He has worked at Sun for eight years. He manages the Engineering team responsible for drivers and software releases for InfiniBand, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, and SCSI connectivity options in the Solaris OS. Recently he has also taken on the HoneyComb projects comprising a content addressable storage product for Sun. Previously, he was a manager of Solaris disk and tape driver components, as well as non-Solaris Fibre Channel failover drivers for AIX, HPUX, and MS Windows. Prior to this, he was a kernel developer working on the Solaris disk driver. Before Sun, Scott worked as a driver developer for Adaptec on the Easy CD Creator product and for MCI on database applications. Scott has a BS in Mining Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, and he currently holds an inactive Certified Public Accountant license in the state of Colorado.

Sunay is a Sun Distinguished Engineer in Solaris Core OS group and has been with Solaris group for 10 years. He has designed, developed and led projects in SUN Solaris kernel/network environment to provide new functionality, performance, and scalability.

He is the Architect for the new stack in Solaris 10 and is currently the architect for Solaris Network Virtualization and Resource Control (project Crossbow). The new architecture allows the system to vertically partition the workload using an IP classifier-based lock-less design. It significantly reduces the overheads of synchronization and cross communication between CPUs which significantly increases performance and scalability.

Sunay was one of the key people for Network Cache and Accelerator (NCA), which provides alternate path from sockets layer all the way down to device driver and gave almost 2 times better performance for web type workloads over the pre FireEngine Solaris stack.

Sowmini Varadhan has been a senior engineer in the Solaris Kernel Networking group at Sun for over 7 years. She has worked on various aspects of the kernel, including routing daemons, kernel routing/forwarding performance, IPv6, tunnels. Sowmini is currently the Project Lead for Project Brussels which provides a kernel framework for a stream-lined intuitive interface for administering network drivers. Sowmini has a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and a Phd from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Jim Walker started his software engineering career working at IBM for NASA on the Space Shuttle project, then developed software for various R&D projects for NASA and the DOE at Johnson Engineering. He then developed vision systems for the injection molding industry at Avalon Imagining. After that, he developed device level firmware at Set Engineering. In 2002, he joined Sun Microsystems and led testing for the UFS, MTBUFS and ZFS file system projects as part of the Solaris Quality Engineering organization. Now he is the OpenSolaris Test Lead and project lead for OpenSolaris Test Suites, OpenSolaris Self-Service Testing and the OpenSolaris Test Farm and the main leader of the OpenSolaris Testing Community. He lives in Boulder, Colorado and helps lead the local Front Range OpenSolaris User Group. He studied Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Purdue University and Computer Science and Management at the University of Colorado.

Yu Xiangning has joined Sun for two and a half year after he got a Master's degree from BUAA (Beijing University of Aero. & Astro.. He has been working on various projects in Solaris networking, and his current project is Volo (http://www.opensolaris/os/projects/volo).

Max Zhen joined Sun in year 2003 and started as a Solaris storage HBA driver developer. In 2006, I joined matrix project team to implement Solaris xVM technology, which has been integrated into Solaris in Sept. 2007. In this project, I mainly focused on implementing I/O subsystems between virtual machines.