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I've been using Unix systems since about 1990, cutting my teeth on 4.2BSD on a VAX, 4.3BSD on HP 9000/300s, and early versions of HP-UX, SunOS, and Dynix. I started using NetBSD when NetBSD 0.8 was released.
While a student at Oregon State University, I worked for the Computer Science Department as a systems administrator and research programmer. The Department, being near Hewlett-Packard's largest campus, had quite a supply of HP 9000/300-series systems. Just after the NetBSD 0.9 release, I began using these systems to hack on NetBSD/hp300.
I left the University in December 1994 and joined the Numerical Aerospace Simulation Facility at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA as a research programmer in January 1995. While there, I worked on many parts of the NetBSD operating system, including the network stack, virtual memory subsystem, network device drivers, the SCSI subsystem, toolchain, and the NetBSD/alpha port. Much of this work was in support of a mass storage R&D project utilizing large AlphaServer systems, disk arrays, and tape silos.
In March 2000, I left NASA and joined Zembu Labs, Inc., a startup company located in Palo Alto, CA, as a senior systems engineer. Zembu did distributed application infrastructure software. The core was formed by Zembu's distributed database software. I worked on Zembu's distributed infrastructure management software. Zembu is no more, but Ian Lance Taylor (one of the founders of Zembu) acquired all of the Zembu IP and is planning on making it open source.
In August 2001, I moved on once again and joined Wasabi Systems, Inc.
In January 2005, I left Wasabi to join Apple Computer.
While I no longer work on NetBSD as part of my regular job, I still find time to tinker with it. My main NetBSD interests these days are related to making the system more dynamically extensible as well as integrated directory services.
When I'm not sitting in front of a computer screen, I like to cook, go to the gym, ride my bike, play San Francisco city league softball, work on the house and my Volkswagen, and reward myself for all of my hard work by going to see the San Francisco Giants race to win the NL West.
I live in San Francisco with my wonderful wife Heather and our three cats: Mips, Flops, and Emma.
Jason R. Thorpe
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