User:Mahrens

Bio
Matt Ahrens co-founded the ZFS project at Sun Microsystems in 2001, designed and implemented major components of ZFS including snapshots and remote replication, and helped lead Sun's ZFS team for 9 years. Matt is now a software engineer at Delphix, where he works on ZFS for Delphix's database virtualization appliance. He continues to improve ZFS, most recently working on i/o performance, as well as coordinating open-source ZFS development across companies and platforms.

Matt founded the OpenZFS community, a collaboration among FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, and illumos ZFS developers. He has presented at Sun Tech Days, the Open Storage Summit, BSDCan, LinuxCon, EuroBSDcon. He organized and keynoted the ZFS Day and OpenZFS Developer Summit conferences.

In his spare time, Matt enjoys woodworking, traveling, and working on dtrace.

Matt has a degree in Computer Science from Brown University.

Press / talks

 * video of OpenZFS Office Hours that I hosted, October 2013
 * video of presentation at NOSIG, October 2013
 * Register article on OpenZFS, September 2013
 * podcast interview with Will Backman for BSDtalk, June 2013
 * video of keynote at ZFS Day, October 2012

Contact Info

 * email: first dot last @ employer dot com or first @ mahrens dot org
 * IRC: mahrens on FreeNode
 * Location: San Francisco
 * LinkedIn
 * Blog
 * Twitter: @mahrens1