Jim Gettys
Chief Technical Officer at Muinin, Inc.
Carlisle, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Gettys is a veteran network systems and protocol designer with over two decades of experience shaping foundational internet technologies, from co-designing the X Window System to editing the HTTP/1.1 specification for the IETF. As CTO of Muinin and long-time open source leader, he blends hands-on engineering with project stewardship, especially in embedded systems, routers, and reproducible builds. He has driven practical performance work as the "Debloater in Chief," tackling bufferbloat and latency issues across products and research at organizations including Bell Labs, HP Labs, and One Laptop Per Child. Based in Carlisle, Massachusetts, he pairs deep protocol expertise with a track record of shipping robust, community-driven free software and mentoring standards-driven development.
22 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Earth and Planetary Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Earth and Planetary Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPhillips Academy
English, German
Github Skills (7)
package-repository7
openwrt7
networking2
router2
traffic2
xlib2
traffic-shaping1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
johnlet/gstreamer-ccnx
Jan 2010 - May 2010
Contributions:8 commits in 3 months
jgettys/Ario
Jan 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 27 days
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