Summary
Greg Becker is a FreeBSD developer and systems engineer with over 30 years of software experience and a deep focus on kernel, device driver, embedded systems, storage, and networking technologies. Based in Austin, he has held senior engineering and principal roles at companies including Micron, NetApp (via CacheIQ), and Klara, consistently working on distributed storage management and TCP/IP networking solutions. His hands-on expertise spans UNIX variants (FreeBSD, GNU/Linux, AIX, Solaris), low-level C/C++ development, sockets, and performance-sensitive platform code. Greg’s background includes both product-scale engineering and component-level hardware calibration from an early career in the USAF, giving him uncommon insight into hardware-software interaction. He is known for tackling complex storage and networking problems at the kernel and driver layers, bridging embedded constraints with distributed system requirements.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BSCS, Mathematics and Computer Science, BSCS, Mathematics and Computer Science at Purdue University
English