Christopher Hertel
Samba Developer, Tech Writer at Independent Open Source Developer
United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Hertel is a veteran systems and network architect with 28 years of experience specializing in SMB/CIFS/SMB3, distributed storage, and protocol design; he is a long-standing Samba Team developer and lead author of Microsoft's MS-CIFS and MS-SMB protocol specifications. He builds production-grade storage interoperability—most recently an SMB3 Offload Engine for SmartNICs—and has led engineering teams and consulting firms to bring Windows interoperability to high-performance distributed filesystems. An author and educator, he wrote "Implementing CIFS" and has taught storage design while advising university IT programs. Equally comfortable in low-level protocol work and technical leadership, he combines deep open-source craftsmanship with practical deployments across academia, startups, and enterprise storage vendors.
28 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of MinnesotaComputer Science, Computer Science at DePaul UniversityNew Trier High School DistrictBA Biology, BA Biology at Grinnell CollegeBiology Philosophy Computer Science, Biology Philosophy Computer Science at Durham University
German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
samba9
proc9
kernel8
git-repo8
filesystem8
xapi7
tla7
rfc7
prometheus6
procfs6
scsi6
opc6
rust5
verifiable-credentials5
go5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ubiqx-org/Modules
Jun 2016 - Dec 2024
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 issue in 8 years 7 months
c-r-h/c-r-h
Sep 2020 - Aug 2024
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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