I'm the guy who gets on the ground first, figures out the situation quickly, and prepares the way for those who will follow. Sometimes you need to do something but you don't have the right kind of expert on staff, or you need more kinds than you have people. Sometimes there are no experts anywhere because the technology's too new. Sometimes you don't even know what kind of experts you need. Solving the kinds of problems that don't stay nicely tied down to one recognized specialty is my trademark.

While all of my major technical strengths come together in the development of multi-server storage systems - which I've done for 2us across a rack and 200ms across the world - any problem that requires a cross-domain systems-level view is likely to interest me.

Specialties:Kernel (lately Linux, formerly various other UNIX, even a little Windows); storage; networks and parallel/distributed systems.