Self-Introduction: Bryan O'Sullivan

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

Full legal name: Bryan O'Sullivan

Country, City: USA, San Francisco

Profession or Student status: professional hacker

Company or School: representing myself

Goals in the Fedora Project:

        Want to see netplug (http://www.red-bean.com/~bos/) added to
        Fedora Core, as it's rather extremely useful for both laptops
        and large clusters.
        
What other projects have I worked on in the past?

        Everything from DRAM controllers and through kernel hacking,
        security, databases, up to big distributed systems such as CPU
        verification tools, Jini (designed part of the original Jini
        protocols) and BEA WebLogic Server (rewrote much of its security
        infrastructure).  In the recent past, did a little stabilisation
        work on the 2.5 kernel for x86_64.

        Currently working on a high-performance 8-million-line GPLed C,
        C++ and Fortran compiler suite, along with performance tools for
        Opteron on Linux.

What computer languages and other skills do you know?

        C, C++, Perl, Python, Fortran, Lisp, Haskell, Caml, awk, bash,
        make, etc, etc.

Why should we trust you?

        Been using Linux for about a decade.  Been involved in bit parts
        of free software projects for about the same time.

GPG KEYID and fingerprint

        pub  1024D/A04AA207 2000-09-15 Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com>
             Key fingerprint = F5C1 5C31 36BB FE88 779D  A9E7 1BC3 EF1B A04A A207
        sub  1152g/E7DC6629 2000-09-15