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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.
Chris also spends a lot of time driving the high quality and
feature
rich message of Solaris 10 out to the field, its all about "Delivering
on the Promise of Solaris 10" as his boss would say. Chris coined the
phrase "Solaris 10, the highest quality operating system we have ever
released" something that has absolutely seen being born out in
deployment.
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.
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| Chris Beal |
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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.
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| Russ Blaine |
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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.
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| Bev Crair |
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As Senior Director of the Solaris NAS team, Bev Crair leads
the Solaris organization's file system and file sharing development
team, responsible for ZFS, NFS, CIFS, and other NAS technologies. Prior
to this, Bev served as Director of the Solaris Organization in various
roles, including at Sun's China Engineering and Research Institute in
Beijing, China for 18 months. She was a recipient of Sun's SMI
Leadership Award in 2005. Bev has been with Sun since 1999. She holds a
B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University
of California at Santa Cruz, and an MBA from the Graziadio School of
Management at Pepperdine University.
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| Scott Dickson |
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Scott Dickson is an twelve-year Sun veteran and a
twenty-plus-year Sun user. Working directly with customers in the
field, Scott has focused on developing Solaris-based solutions for
large and small enterprise customers, primarily in the communications
and transportation industries. Currently, Scott is part of a team whose
mission is to help customers move to Solaris 10 and to put in place
methodologies to more easily move forward as new releases of Solaris
are available. Prior to coming to Sun, Scott spent nearly ten years as
a system administrator and applications programmer in a variety of Unix
and mainframe systems. Scott received both his Bachelor's and Master's
degrees in Computer Science from Penn State University.
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| Nicolas Droux |
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Nicolas Droux is a Senior Staff Engineer with the Solaris Core
Technologies group at Sun Microsystems. He is currently working on the
challenges surrounding networking performance and virtualization. In
the recent past he was leading the effort that delivered Project Nemo a
new high-performance device driver framework in Solaris. Nicolas was
also a part of the Solaris security engineering team where he worked on
the Solaris Cryptographic framework and rearchitected the Solaris IPsec
implementation for improved performance and scalability.
Nicolas received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from the
Biel School of Engineering, Switzerland, in 1992.
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| Glen Faden |
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Glenn Faden is a Senior Software Engineer in the Solaris
Security Technologies Group, and has worked at Sun for 17 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.
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| Moinak Ghosh |
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I work in the Solaris Sustaining Team in SUN's India
Engineering Center at Bangalore,
working on OS libraries, utilities, and also handling Security
vulnerability issues. Apart
from this I am involved with a variety of activities around
OpenSolaris, that include
driving the Bangalore OpenSolaris User Group, OpenSolaris projects and
talks and
some kernel hacking.
I developed the now popular OpenSolaris community distribution called
BeleniX more
than a year back working entirely in my free time
(http://www.belenix.org/). This is
a community project maintained on volunteer effort.
I have been in this industry for the past 10 years of which I spent 9
years working mostly
on Solaris and sometimes on Linux. I worked at the Cisco Offshore
development center
at HCL Chennai on Networking Technologies prior to joining SUN.
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| Jim Hughes |
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James is a Sun Fellow and VP of Sun Microsystems. Currently
the CTO of the Solaris Operating System, he has influence over the
future direction of one of the most deployed operating systems in
enterprises today.A recognized expert in the area of Storage Security,
he is also the chair of the IEEE Security In Storage workgroup defining
storage encryption and is the past and current chair
of the IEEE Security in Storage Workshop. Formerly with StorageTek,
Network Systems and Control Data Corp, he has over 32 years in the
Storage and Networking industry.
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| Wyllys Ingersoll |
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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.
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| Stephen Hahn |
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Stephen Hahn is a Senior Staff Engineer in the Solaris Product
Group at Sun Microsystems. He is presently the technical lead for the
OpenSolaris program at Sun, and is focused on modifying the company's
internal software development processes to be more inclusive of and
transparent to the wider community. In Solaris 10, Stephen led the
design and development of the Solaris Service Management Facility.
Previous work has been focused on service and resource management at
the operating system level, particularly in building foundations
forautomated resource managers. His research interests are broad, and
include describing meaningful application interdependencies,
predictable systems behaviour, and implementing high performance sort
algorithms.
He received his PhD in Theoretical Physics from Brown
University, before joining Sun in 1997.
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| Stephen Harpster |
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As Director of Sun's Open Source Software group, Stephen
Harpster is tasked with creating an open development community and
delivering open source software, including OpenSolaris, the Java
Desktop System (JDS),
and the X Window System for the Solaris platform. Sun sponsors a
variety of open source projects, which support innovation and rapid
development. Producing open systems has been the hallmark of Sun's
business philosophy since its founding.
Stephen has been with Sun for more than 10 years. Most
recently, he was responsible for leading Sun's Linux Software
Engineering group, providing Linux and Linux applications for Sun's
Intel and Opteron processor-based systems. Stephen also managed the
Cobalt software organization shortly after Sun's acquisition of Cobalt,
and previously, the Solaris Internet Engineering group, responsible for
Solaris network protocols.
Before joining Sun in 1996, Stephen was a software engineer
for Hughes Network Systems and Tellabs developing telecommunications
software. He holds a B.S. in Information and Computer Science from the
Georgia Institute of Technology and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science from Northwestern University.
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| Kathy Jenks |
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Kathy Jenks is the Director of Security Technologies. Her
charter is to build a strong cryptographic foundation for Solaris
security products and to deliver authentication technologies that are
critical elements of the solutions to complex network computing
problems.
Kathy joined Sun over 20 years ago as a software engineer and
soon moved to the organization that later became part of the Solaris
group. She held her 1st management position in 1994, became a senior
manager in the Solaris Security organization in 2000, and was appointed
Director in 2004. She has been an active and contributing member of the
SMI security community, most notably a founding member of the Security
Strategy Team.
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| Peter Karlsson |
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Peter Karlsson is a Solaris Technology Evangelist who works
with developers to adopt technologies delivered through the Solaris
Operating Environment. Prior to joining the Evangelists, Peter had been
working in the North/North-Eastern Europe sales support organization
for five years. There he was senior product specialist focusing on
Solaris Operating Environment and related technologies. Peter has also
worked in the Sun MDE I/O-technologies and solutions, supporting
third-party ISV's with device driver development.
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| Shiva Kumar |
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Shiv's career spans over 7 years with Siemens Communication
Software. He started his career developing TMN application software for
the Siemens switching system for the wireline networks. Subsequently
moved on to become part of the Software Engineering best practices
group and Quality Management group. He has held QM responsibilities for
a large-scale multi-site mobile core projects. As the youngest auditor
at that point of time, and author of many of the software development
processes/sub-processes, he helped setup the QMS for the organisation.
Shiv has served some of the technical bodies of IEEE in
variety of
capacities. He has been Secretary & Vice-Chair of IEEE
CCEM(Computer, Communication and Engineering Management Society)
Bangalore Chapter, Chairman of IEEE GOLD Bangalore Chapter and
Executive committee member of IEEE Bangalore Section.
Shiv holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from
Indian
Institute of Management, Bangalore and an Engineering degree from
Karnataka Regional Engineering College, Surathkal, India.
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| Frank Lin Liang |
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Frank Lin Liang is a Technology Evangelist who covers Solaris
technologies within Sun. He has more than 20 years experience in IT
professional. He has worked as unix system administrator and developer
on several Unix platforms. He also has skills on software application
system design and development including OO methodology, Java and C++.
He is Sun Certified Architect, Sun Certified Developer, and Sun
Certified Programmer.
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| Stephen Lau |
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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.
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| Nils Nieuwejaar |
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Nils Nieuwejaar is a Senior Staff Engineer in the Solaris
Kernel Technology group. He has been with Sun for ten years and in the
Solaris group for three years. As a member of the Solaris organization
he was part of the team that ported Solaris to AMD64 and was the lead
of the BrandZ (AKA Linux Zones on Solaris) project. In his early days
at Sun he worked on high performance computing, high-end clustering,
and cluster-based file systems. He has a BA in Philosophy and Computer
Science from Bowdoin College and an M.S. and PhD in Computer Science
from Dartmouth College.
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| Erik Nordmark |
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Erik has been at Sun since 1989. He has spent most of this
time on networking centered around IP such as IP Multicast, IPv6, Web
performance, TCP/IP multithreading, STREAMS, as well as significant
technical work in the Internet Engineering Task Force. The IETF work
has included working on many parts of IPv6 and serving for five years
as an IETF Area Director and as such a member of the Internet
Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Currently his IETF work includes
Scalable IPv6 Multihoming (shim6), Detecting Network Attachment (DNA),
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| Alex Peng |
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Alex Peng is a software engineer in Solaris network QE group
based in Beijing. His work includes IPFilter, packet filter hooks, IP
instance, packet event framework.
Alex previously worked for UTStarcom, built several province
networks for the big ChinaNet. He got M.S. in Communications
Engineering from Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany, and B.S.
from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.
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| Gary Pennington |
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I've worked for Sun since 1995 and I joined the Kernel group
in 2000.
I originally worked in the Solaris Resource Management group, helping
to
implement Resource Pools, Dynamic Resource Pools and SMF.
I'm currently the technical lead of the OpenSolaris website.
This means I
get to work out fixes to problems with the website whilst at the same
time
working out how to improve the website and add new functionality over
time.
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| Sriram Popuri |
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Sriram is working in Solaris Sustaining and Engineering group
at SUN Microsystems for the past 3yrs. Works in Libraries and Naming
area. One of the developers of BeleniX. (livecd distribution based on
OpenSolaris) An OpenSolaris evangilist giving talks and demos at
customer sites, conferences and universities. Sriram has his Masters in
Computer
Science from IIT-Guwahati.
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| Dan Price |
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Daniel Price is a Staff Engineer in the Solaris Kernel Group.
He
> is currently the lead of the Solaris Zones team and has been a
team
> member since the project's inception. Before working on Zones, Dan
worked
> on Solaris I/O frameworks. He holds an Sc.B. with Honors in
Computer
> Science from Brown University.
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| Roman Shaposhnik |
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Roman Shaposhnik started his career in compilers back in '94
when he was faced with a necessity of writing a translator for the
programming language he'd just invented (the language was so weird --
nobody else wanted to do the job). While studying mathematics in
St.Petersburg State University he got sidetracked into the field of
linguistics at which point his obsession with formal languages beyond
human comprehension was totally incurable and eventually helped him
land a job at Sun working on a C++ parser.
Nowadays he works on Sun Studio compilers and tools as a Sun
Studio Linux Architect and truly believes that our beloved
Moore's Law is dead and all software engineers have to learn how
to survive under a new sheriff in town: the Ahmdal's Law.
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| Sunay Tripathi |
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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.
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| Philip Torchinsky |
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Philip Torchinsky, Solaris Evangeilst, joined Sun Microsystems
in January of 2007. Philip worked for many companies, including
universities, Russian Academy of Sciences, non-commercial and
commercial companies as a senior system administrator
or IT-manager.
Implementing many projects related to UNIX-based networks
development, Philip wrote two books in Russian: "UNIX system
administration practical guide" and "Solaris operating system".
Working in different environments in several European and
Asian countries, he learnt the actual needs of business and
non-commercial parties and glad to share the experience and explain
Solaris best answers to the needs.
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| George Wilson |
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George Wilson is Senior Staff Engineer in the Solaris Software
Group and
has been with Sun for 12 years. He recently moved into the Solaris
Network Attached Storage Group and is currently working on key
enhancements to ZFS (Zettabyte File System). Prior to this, George was
a member of the Revenue Products Engineering (RPE) Team and was
responsible for diagnosing problems and developing fixes for Sun
Cluster and ZFS. He was the Tech Lead for the ZFS backport to Solaris
10, a member of the Sun Ray team which ported Sun Ray Server to amd64,
led an effort to improve Sun Clusters failover capabilities and has
been an active member in the Atlanta OpenSolaris Community.
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