Bryan Cantrill
Software engineer; created DTrace at Sun, CTO of Joyent, co-founded Oxide Computer.
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- Bryan Cantrill is an American software engineer.
- He joined Sun Microsystems in 1996 and developed DTrace for Solaris 10.
- He left Oracle, which had bought Sun, in July 2010 for Joyent, where he was VP of engineering and from April 2014 to July 2019 CTO.
- He is co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company.
Key facts
- Born
- December 1973, Vermont1
- Sun Microsystems
- 1996 to 2010 (Oracle from its acquisition of Sun); created DTrace; co-founded the Fishworks project1
- Joyent
- VP of engineering from July 2010; CTO, April 2014 to July 20191
- Now
- Co-founder and CTO, Oxide Computer Company1
- Recognition
- MIT Technology Review TR35, 2005; USENIX STUG award, 20081
- Education
- B.Sc. in computer science, Brown University, 19961
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