Jeff Bonwick

Jeff Bonwick is a Software Engineer, most notable for leading the team that developed the ZFS file system. He was a Sun Fellow and later a Vice President at Sun Microsystems and then a Senior Software Architect at Oracle until his departure from the company on 30 September 2010. In 2010 he founded DSSD together with Bill Moore. The company is now a division of EMC Corporation.

Bonwick's other work includes the slab allocator, an object-caching kernel memory allocator, and the LZJB compression algorithm.

Bonwick published a blog which details the development of ZFS.

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