Well after being born in 1970, Allen obtained his BS (1995) in Computer Science from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). While a student, he was part of a group that ported NetBSD to replace the native A/UX running on the school-required 68k-based Macintosh systems. Also while he was a student, Allen began working for Recognition Research, Inc., developing high-volume document- and forms-processing software on a wide variety of Unix and commodity operating systems. In late 2000, a few months shy of 10 years at RRI, Allen moved to join Wasabi Systems, Inc..

Allen's first taste of Unix was at NCSSM on a Data General MV/4000 system. Since then, he has tasted a number of different flavors, but sticks with NetBSD. He served as the first port-master of the NetBSD/mac68k port and branched out from there. He currently works mostly with PowerPC and XScale systems.

Obtained BA (1985), MEng (1986), and PhD (1992) in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. Worked at IBM T. J. Watson Labs for a year after the Master's degree. Served as Chief Technology Officer at D. E. Shaw & Co. in New York, at Commerzbank Investment Banking in Frankfurt, and at Blink.com Inc. in New York. Currently he is a Managing Director at Two Sigma Investments, LLC.

First contact with Unix 4.2BSD in 1982. Maintains tcsh(1), file(1), make(1), isapnp(4), compat_svr4(8), editline(3), freerdist(1), and other crufty code people have long abandoned or are too disgusted to touch.

He started using 4.2BSD in 1984 at DEC. In 1988, after 5 years at DEC supporting ULTRIX, he transferred to NAC (Networks And Communications). While there, he maintained various pieces of DECnet, DECnet/OSI, and the base O/S for ULTRIX and Tru64 (DEC OSF/1). He also worked on an IPv6 prototype for Tru64. While at DEC he also wrote and supported many device drivers for DEC network adapters for NetBSD. He left DEC in 1998.

His major contributions to NetBSD include the initial elf(5) support, FDDI, VAX toolchain work (a.out(5) shared libraries followed by elf(5) support), PowerPC machine support, Netwinder support, and networking improvements.

For the past several years, his work has been focused on adapting NetBSD to the embedded systems of his employers, Allegro Networks, and currently, Brocade Communications.

Graduated from St.Petersburg State University in 1994 (Applied Mathematics).

He first encountered Unix in 1987 - it was DEMOS 2.0, a Soviet 2.9BSD derivative. Incidentally, "M" in DEMOS stands for "portable", so one can say that his fate was predetermined back then.

His NetBSD activities are mostly related to SuperH and SPARC ports.

He is a NetBSD user since 2000 and involved in the Citrus Project since 2001 which does Internationalization (I18N) of *BSD operating systems. In 2001, he became a NetBSD developer and since then has worked on I18N, NFS, UVM and miscellaneous fixes/improvements.

Since 2002, he is working at VA Linux Systems Japan, K.K. as a member of the engineering departement.

Obtained a B. App. Sci. (Computer Science) from RMIT in 2000. Began working at RMIT Computer Science as a Systems Administrator (1993-1994), moved to Telstra's CPR Project (1994-1996), worked at connect.com.au for a few months (1997), moved back to RMIT as a Senior Systems Administrator (1997-2000), and then worked at Network Appliance as a Systems Engineer for a few months. Currently a member of technical staff for Wasabi Systems (2000-). Lives in Melbourne with his wife.

Has been using UNIX since 1990. First installed 386BSD 0.1 in early 1992, migrated to NetBSD 0.8 when it became available. Has been a developer since late 1996 and a member of core since late 1999. Is responsible for various userland improvements including nsswitch, excessive featuritus in ftp(1), ftpd(8), the rc(8) subsystem, dump(8), etc... Also does a lot of miscellaneous work such as writing doco, cleaning up Makefiles, ...

More information is available at http://www.mewburn.net/luke/.

Graduated in CS from the University of Amsterdam in 1994. Has worked there since as a research programmer in the areas of parallel programming environments and computer architecture

386bsd user 1992-1993, NetBSD user since september 1993. NetBSD developer since February 1995, has worked on: Linux compat code, NFSv3 code, 4.4BSD Lite2 merge and other stuff.

Frank has been the NetBSD/i386 port maintainer since 1998. In June of 2001, Frank ported NetBSD to AMD's amd64 architecture (formerly x86-64). In addition to everything else, Frank is the port maintainer of NetBSD/amd64 also.