Simon Gerraty
Fellow At HPE at NetBSD
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolSimon Gerraty is a software veteran with over 30 years of experience designing and building UNIX/C systems, now serving as a Fellow at HPE and a long-standing committer to FreeBSD and developer for NetBSD. He has maintained bmake for about 25 years, giving him deep expertise in build systems and a systems-level perspective that helps unravel complex dependencies and tooling challenges. His career spans consulting, long tenures at Juniper Networks, and early work through Crufty.NET, blending hands-on engineering with architectural leadership. Based in Sunnyvale, he pairs a mechanical engineering background from Monash University with decades of kernel- and infrastructure-focused coding. Colleagues know him for pragmatic problem-solving and for quietly sustaining critical open-source tooling that many projects rely on.
13 years of coding experience
BE/Mech Mechanical Engineering, BE/Mech Mechanical Engineering at Monash University
Github Skills (44)
src10
unix10
jail10
freebsd10
history10
risc-v10
linux10
openbsd10
bsd10
risc10
evolution10
version-control10
arm10
shell10
xen10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cschuber/freebsd-telnet
Nov 2012 - Dec 2019
Contributions:20 commits in 7 years 2 months
dspinellis/unix-history-repo
Oct 2012 - Aug 2020
Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today
Contributions:596 commits in 7 years 11 months
unixevolutionversion-controluntillinux
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