Chris Dunlop
Founder And Managing Director at OnTheNet Pty Ltd
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Dunlop is a veteran founder and systems engineer with over three decades working across Unix systems, networking and applied software development, and he has run OnTheNet since 1995 delivering ISP and cloud backup services to SMEs. He combines low-level systems expertise—from assembler and kernel/driver work—to application and database design, having built production billing, imaging and inventory systems for government and enterprise customers. Chris led development and operations teams at InfoXchange for nearly a decade, shaping infrastructure and service platforms while managing cross-functional engineering work. An active contributor to OpenZFS, he has practical kernel- and storage-level fixes that improved compatibility and robustness across Linux and BSD kernels. Based in Melbourne, he brings entrepreneurial leadership, deep operational know-how and a hands-on approach to solving persistent systems and storage challenges.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
Github Skills (13)
c1710
system10
systemd10
filesystem10
openzfs10
c1110
linux-kernel10
sys10
memory-management9
api8
apidoc8
debugging7
debug7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openzfs/zfs
Dec 2011 - Jan 2022
OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 36 commits, 40 PRs in 10 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the ZFS codebase by addressing kernel-level issues and implementing system-level changes. Their work focused on ensuring compatibility with different kernel versions, specifically related to timestamp handling, memory allocation, and block device operations. They also fixed bugs and optimized existing code, as well as made general system-level enhancements.
openzfstarballlinuxfreebsdsystem-software
chrisrd/zfs
Sep 2012 - Dec 2021
Native ZFS for Linux
Contributions:64 commits, 105 pushes, 65 branches in 9 years 5 months
linuxzfsinitramfsbsdfilesystems
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