Gregory Kurtzer
Founder And Chief Executive Officer at CIQ
Reno, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGregory Kurtzer is a founder and CEO with 15 years of hands-on experience building open source infrastructure that bridges high-performance computing, enterprise, cloud, and hyperscale environments. He founded and scaled multiple influential projects and companies—most notably CentOS, Rocky Linux, Sylabs (exited), and now CIQ—demonstrating a rare blend of deep technical craftsmanship and organizational leadership. His work includes creating widely used cluster management and container technologies (e.g., Warewulf and Singularity) that continue to underpin scientific and enterprise computing. Based in Reno, Nevada, he chairs the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation to ensure community-driven, stable enterprise Linux alternatives. Gregory’s background as a scientist-advisor at national labs and his track record of turning research-grade tools into production-grade companies highlight his knack for translating academic innovation into sustainable commercial ecosystems. He combines an operator’s focus on reliability with a founder’s appetite for building open communities and long-lived software platforms.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Biochemistry, BS Biochemistry at Northern California Chicken Grooming School
Github Skills (91)
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kubernetes10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
warewulf/warewulf
Oct 2020 - Sep 2022
Warewulf is a stateless and diskless container operating system provisioning system for large clusters of bare metal and/or virtual systems.
Contributions:6 releases, 89 reviews, 915 commits in 1 year 10 months
containersprovisioningstatelessbare-metalmetal
gmkurtzer/gmkurtzer.github.io
Oct 2015 - Jun 2021
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 5 years 9 months
gregory
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