Jeremy Allison is a Distinguished Engineer with 28 years building core open source infrastructure, best known for long-term leadership on the Samba project where he contributes deep systems, networking and file-service expertise. He has worked across major tech organizations including Google and Sun, helped shape open standards at OASIS and served on multiple non-profit boards advocating Free Software and open standards. Jeremy blends hands-on systems programming and distributed-storage experience with policy and legal savvy — he was part of the legal team in the landmark EU vs. Microsoft antitrust case. Based in Mountain View, he now applies that rare combination of technical depth and advocacy at CIQ, continuing to influence the interoperability stack underlying modern file systems and SMB/CIFS implementations.
28 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Ashleigh Comprehensive School, Sheffield, UK
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics and Astronomy, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics and Astronomy at The University of Sheffield
https://gitlab.com/samba-team/samba is the Official GitLab mirror of https://git.samba.org/samba.git -- Merge requests should be made on GitLab (not on GitHub)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & System Administrator
Contributions:1999 commits, 9 comments in 12 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jeremy primarily focused on back-end development within the Samba project, contributing to system-level code. Their commits involved modifying internal functions and data structures to support core file service functionality, including networking, ACL management, and file system operations. The user demonstrated an understanding of the system by contributing to multiple areas. Additionally, the user exhibited skills in system administration, as well as integration.
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