Max Alt, Strategic Relationship Manager for Sun Microsystems, Intel USA

Max is currently managing global software alliance with Sun Micro at Intel. Prior to that Max was Intel's staff open source software architect leading tech teams to foster formation of developer communities and delivering optimized open source solutions on Intel platforms. During that time Max championed and managed partnership with Ubuntu and Debian developer communities. Max has joined Intel in 1998 as Sr. Software engineer in corporate technology group. In 2001 he moved to Intel professional services where he led over 50 high profile software consulting engagements with Fortune 500 companies and governments worldwide and became known expert in performance and compilers for national laboratories and a number of research institutions in the US.

Prior to working at Intel, Max was senior computer scientist at Adobe Inc. and Scitex Corp. (Kodak) architecting, developing and optimizing leading image processing systems.

Max holds M.Sc in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and B.Sc in Computer Science and Mathematics from Tel-Aviv University.

Topic: Nehalem and OpenSolaris: more than the sum of their parts

Bill Moore, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems Inc

Bill Moore is a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, and is currently working in Sun Labs, exploring optimized system designs for running ZFS. He previously served as Chief Engineer for the Storage Server group, working on the design of Sun's next-generation storage servers. He co-led the team (along with Jeff Bonwick) that delivered Sun's innovative ZFS filesystem. Bill first joined Sun in 1996 working on the SunFire x800 series of servers. He left Sun in 1999 to help form a startup, 3PARdata, focused on delivering a highly scalable enterprise storage system, where he was involved in every aspect of the overall HW and SW design. Bill re-joined Sun in 2003 to apply his storage industry expertise towards ZFS and the design of Sun's ext-generation storage servers.

Topic: Deduplication in ZFS

Jeff Bonwick, Sun Fellow & VP, Sun Microsystems

Jeff Bonwick is a Sun Fellow and Vice President at Sun Microsystems. He is the chief architect of ZFS, a new kind of file system that provides simple administration, transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and immense scalability using commodity hardware. Prior to ZFS Jeff invented the slab allocator, which has been adopted by most modern operating systems, is featured in OS textbooks, and has become part of the curriculum at major universities worldwide. Jeff created observability tools including kstat and lockstat, and authored many core Solaris services, including mutexes and rwlocks, priority inheritance, task queues, and the LZJB compression algorithm.

Jeff holds a BS in Mathematics from the University of Delaware and an MS in Statistics from Stanford. He has over 50 patents granted or filed.

Topic: Deduplication in ZFS

Fernando Gont (unaffiliated)

Fernando Gont specializes in the field of communications protocols security, working for private and gubernamental organizations both in Argentina and overseas, including the UK National Infrastructure Security Coordination Centre (NISCC) and the UK Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI). As part of his work for these organizations, he has written extensively on the TCP/IP protocol suite. Currently working on security assessments of communications protocols on behalf of the United Kingdom's CPNI, he is also a member of the Centro de Estudios de Informatica (CEDI) at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional/Facultad Regional Haedo (UTN/FRH) of Argentina.

Active in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), he has published a number of IETF InternetDrafts, most of which have been adopted as future RFCs, and has collaborated in a number of thirdparty publications. He is a regular speaker at conferences and technical meetings about information security, operating systems, and Internet engineering.

Topic: "Results of a Security Assessment of Common Implementation Strategies of the TCP and IP Protocols"

Henning Brauer (OpenBSD)

Henning has been a core OpenBSD contributer for the last seven years, specialising in the packet filtering utility 'pf'. He has spoken at several BSD conferences, and lives in Germany.

Topic: "Faster Packets: Performance Tuning in the OpenBSD Network Stack and PF"

Gavin Maltby (Sun Microsystems)

Gavin works in the Solaris development organisation at Sun, the last 4 years in the group responsible for Solaris fault management and other RAS aspects. Prior to that he worked in sparc systems development on error trap handling and cpu bringup. Before then he worked in SunService for 3 years doing kernel crashdump analysis and 4 years in the corporate technical escalations group mostly working on cpu reliability issues. In his 13 years at Sun he has experienced RAS issues from a range of different perspectives.

Topic: "Hardware & Software Fault Management Architecture"

Brendan Gregg (Sun Microsystems)

Brendan Gregg is a staff engineer in the Fishworks group at Sun Microsystems where he works on a wide range of kernel and user-land technologies, especially those related to performance. He is the creator of the DTraceToolkit and is the co-author of Solaris Performance and Tools. His recent projects include writing the DTrace IP provider, the Fishworks BUI dashboard, and the ZFS L2ARC.

Brendan has previously worked as a system administrator, Sun instructor and consultant in the Asia-Pacific region, and was based in Sydney, Australia. He is currently living in San Francisco, California, where he misses cricket and rugby on TV.

Topic: "DTrace"

Pawel Dawidek (FreeBSD)

Pawel Jakub Dawidek is a FreeBSD committer.

In the FreeBSD project, he works mostly in the storage subsystems area (GEOM, file systems), security (disk encryption, opencrypto framework, IPsec, jails), but his code is also in many other parts of the system.

Pawel currently lives in Warsaw, Poland, running his own company - Wheel Sp. z o.o. (http://www.wheel.pl) where he works mostly on security related projects.

Topic: "GEOM - The FreeBSD Way of Handling Storage"

John Sonnenschein (Sun Microsystems)

John Sonnenschein joined the OpenSolaris community shortly after the public launch in 2005, having migrated from nearly 10 years of experience in the Linux community. In 2007 he participated in the Google Summer of Code for OpenSolaris, working in the standard C library. As of 2008 John is an employee of Sun Microsystems where he was involved in open development infrastructure, userland modernization, and package porting. Prior to joining Sun he attended university at the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, Canada where he majored in philosophy, and the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George, Canada where he majored in computer science.

Topic: "Driver and Filesystem Development with the Solaris and OpenSolaris DDI/DKI"

David Gwynne (University of Queensland)

David Gwynne is a staff member at the University of Queensland's Engineering, Architecture and IT faculty, where he designs faculty-wide infrastructure solutions and leads a team responsible for implementation. Over the last 5 years has become well known in the OpenBSD community for his work with network and storage drivers, and wrote the OpenSolaris 'mfi' driver for LSI MegaRAID/SAS cards.

Topic: "MCLGETI: Effective Network Livelock Mitigation and More"

Cristina Cifuentes (Sun Microsystems)

Cristina Cifuentes is a Principal Investigator at Sun Labs Down Under where she leads the Parfait bug-checking project. Cristina is internationally recognised for her work on program transformations, in particular as applied to binary/executable code in the areas of decompilation and binary translation.

She has been with Sun for close to 10 years, where she has worked in a variety of projects including binary translation, program transformations for a cycle-based Verilog compiler for the Phaser massively parallel machine and a small Java virtual machine that runs on the Sun SPOT wireless sensor platform.

Prior to Sun, Dr. Cifuentes obtained a PhD from the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and held academic positions at the University of Tasmania and the University of Queensland.

Topic: "Finding Bugs in Open Source Kernels Using Parfait"

Sherry Moore (Sun Microsystems)

Sherry Moore is Senior Staff Engineer in the Solaris Core Kernel Group. She has been with Sun Microsystems since 1997, and led various software teams for both SPARC and x86. She is currently the technical lead for the Solaris x86 Kernel Team. Some of her projects include x86 Fast Reboot and Panic Fast Reboot, Solaris port to AMD64 Architecture, Sun Fire 4800-6800 Dynamic Reconfiguration.

Topic: "x86 Fast Reboot"

Max Bruning (Bruning Systems)

Max Bruning began using and programming Unix-based systems while obtaining a Master's degree at Columbia University. He has been teaching Unix Internals, Device Drivers, and various other courses since 1981. Max has also spent many years doing kernel development and debugging work. He has done consulting and/or training work for Bell Labs, AT&T, Motorola, Sun Microsystems, HP, Siemens-Nixdorf, and various other companies. Max has had articles published on device drivers, Solaris/Linux/Freebsd kernels, and application programming on Solaris and Linux. In his spare time, he plays with mdb, zdb,and dtrace, and he writes courses. His very occasionally written blog is at mbruning.blogspot.com, and website is at http://www.bruningsystems.com.

Topic: "Porting USB HID Device Drivers Between Linux and OpenSolaris"

James Morris (Red Hat)

James Morris is a Linux kernel developer from Sydney, Australia. He is the Linux kernel security maintainer; author of the kernel Crypto API; and a contributor to the SELinux, LSM, Netfilter and IPsec projects.

James has talked at LCA, OLS, Kernel Summit, FOSS.IN, FOSS.MY and LF Japan Symposium.

Topic: "Linux Kernel Security Overview"

Percy Pari-Salas (Bond University)

Percy Pari Salas is currently a PhD Candidate at the School of Information Technology, Bond University. He has held positions in Macau, as a Fellow at the International Institute for Software Technology, and as a lecturer in different universities in Peru. He got his BEng in Systems Engineering from the "Universidad Catolica de Santa Maria" in Peru and his MSc in Computer Science from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. His research interests are in the area of software engineering, particularly on model and fault-based testing, and security. He has also interest in specific purpose machines.

Topic: "Automated Testing of OpenSolaris"

Vivek Joshi (Sun Microsystems)

Vivek has been working with Sun Microsystems for 9 years. He has worked on Solaris and related components including but not limited to Solaris utilities, libraries, Sun Cluster and system management.

Vivek is currently working on appliances including Sun's unified storage systems and Sun StorageTek NAS OS.

Topic: "Porting OpenSolaris Across Architectures"

Jayakara Kini (Sun Microsystems)

Jayakara Kini has worked for Sun Microsystems' Solaris Sustaining organisation since late 2000, after working at Tata Infotech on SVR4 and UnixWare. He specialises in virtualisation technologies such as Solaris Logical Domains (LDOMs) and CrossBow, is a regular sponsor of non-Sun contributions to OpenSolaris and is an active member of the Bangalore OpenSolaris UserGroup BOSUG.

Topic: "Crossbow for OpenSolaris Developers"

Garrett D'Amore (Sun Microsystems)

Garrett D'Amore is a native of Southern California. He has been working in UNIX and embedded systems development for about 15 years, mostly on Solaris and related systems -- including working on everything from firmware for Sun Ray class ultra thin-client mobile workstations, to high end mainframe class systems. He works for Sun from his home near the Temecula wine country, where he lives with his wife, three children, two dogs, two cats, and too many salt water fish to count.

Topic: "Boomer: the new OpenSolaris Audio System"

Pramod Batni (Sun Microsystems)

Pramod's work in the Solaris group involves debugging and diagnosing Solaris kernel problems. He analyses kernel crashes encoutered on customer systems and develops fixes for kernel bugs. Pramod joined Sun 9 years ago after completing his Master's in Computer Science.

Topic: "Debugging and Diagnosing Interesting Kernel Problems"

Stewart Smith (Sun Microsystems)

Stewart Smith is a Drizzle Developer working for Sun Microsystems. Drizzle is a fork of the MySQL server designed for modularity and large scale web applications. Previous to working on Drizzle, he spent 4 years working for MySQL (and then Sun) on MySQL Cluster: a high performance, high availability pseudo-realtime clustered database very popular in the telco markets.