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== Bio ==
== Bio ==
Matt Ahrens co-founded the ZFS project at Sun Microsystems in 2001, designed and implemented major components of ZFS including snapshots and remote replication, and helped lead Sun's ZFS team for 9 years.  Matt is now a software engineer at [http://delphix.com Delphix], where he works on ZFS for Delphix's database virtualization appliance.  He continues to improve ZFS, most recently working on i/o performance, as well as coordinating open-source ZFS development across companies and platforms. He has presented at Sun Tech Days, the Open Storage Summit, BSDCan, and he keynoted the [http://zfsday.com/zfsday ZFS Day] conference. Matt has a degree in [http://cs.brown.edu/courses/csci1690/ Computer Science] from Brown University.
Matt Ahrens co-founded the ZFS project at Sun Microsystems in 2001, designed and implemented major components of ZFS including snapshots and remote replication, and helped lead Sun's ZFS team for 9 years.  Matt is now a software engineer at [http://delphix.com Delphix], where he leads a team working on ZFS for Delphix's database virtualization appliance.  He continues to develop ZFS code, as well as coordinating open-source ZFS development across companies and platforms.
 
Matt founded the OpenZFS community, a collaboration among FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, and illumos ZFS developers.  He has presented at Sun Tech Days, the Open Storage Summit, BSDCan, LinuxCon, EuroBSDcon, AsiaBSDcon, and dotScale.  He created the annual [[OpenZFS_Developer_Summit]] conference in 2013, and organizes it and delivers a keynote every year.
 
Matt advises several companies that use ZFS in their products, providing training and helping them design new features and performance enhancements for their specific use cases.
 
In his spare time, Matt enjoys woodworking, traveling, and working on dtrace.
 
Matt has a degree in [http://cs.brown.edu/courses/csci1690/ Computer Science] from Brown University.
 
== Press / talks ==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oue2cPFK7AU video] of my talk on Flexible Disk Use at BSDCAN, June 2018
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1j75hTCsMItaWvUhOlGRqJLgdTLcYdqyi37wDscQHWgc/edit?usp=sharing slides] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njt82e_3qVo video] of my talk on Flexible Disk Use at the ZFS User Conference, April 2018
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1P2Q_eAgJH_6YorgTHDVgTZQfrBgtGs6VwLBvX7W23FA/edit?usp=sharing slides] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsY-BafQgj4 video] from [https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/16x/presentations/openzfs-basics talk] on OpenZFS Basics at SCALE16x, March 2018
* [https://www.bsdcan.org/2017/schedule/attachments/436_ZFS%20Channel%20Programs%20-%20BSDCAN%202017%20(1).pdf slides] from my talk on Improving the ZFS User-Kernel API with Channel Programs, at BSDCAN, June 2017
* [https://vimeo.com/209378260/487aa10d40 video] of Q&A with Austin McChord, CEO of Datto, at the ZFS User Conference, March 2017.
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJGkyMxdNFE video] and [https://www.slideshare.net/MatthewAhrens/openzfs-novel-algorithms-snapshots-space-allocation-raidz-matt-ahrens slides] from my lecture about Snapshots, Space Allocation, and RAID-Z at Brown University, March 2017 ([https://vimeo.com/209376507/634be07a9a alternate video] of the same material from the ZFS User Conference)
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz7CEI8LwSI video] from my "History of ZFS" talk at MeetBSD, November 2016.
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIJGUNDZ9yE&feature=youtu.be video] and [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5hUzsxe4cdmcVpoR0N6cEJLeFU/view slides] from my "State of the Union" talk at the [[OpenZFS_Developer_Summit_2016 | OpenZFS Developer Summit]], September 2016.
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzqlzjbzyGA&list=PLeF8ZihVdpFfoEV67dBSrKfA8ifpUr6qC&index=39 video] and [https://www.bsdcan.org/2016/schedule/attachments/366_ZFS%20Allocation%20Performance.pdf slides] from my talk on ZFS Allocation Performance at BSDCAN, June 2016
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptY6-K78McY video] of my lecture on ZFS read and write code paths - a code walk-through.  March 2016
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV276yUfgK4&feature=youtu.be video] from my keynote at the [[OpenZFS_Developer_Summit_2015 | OpenZFS Developer Summit]], October 2015.
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOX7WDAjqso&index=30&list=PLWW0CjV-TafY0NqFDvD4k31CtnX-CGn8f video] from my presentation on ZFS send and receive at BSDCAN, June 2015
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY44jPMvxog video] from my presentation on ZFS send and receive at the OpenZFS European Conerence, May 2015
* [http://www.slideshare.net/MatthewAhrens/openzfs-send-and-receive slides] from my presentation on ZFS send and receive at AsiaBSDcon, March 2015.
* [http://open-zfs.org/w/images/5/5b/OpenZFS_Keynote-Matt_Ahrens.pdf slides] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnTzbisLYzg video] of my keynote at the [[OpenZFS_Developer_Summit_2014 | OpenZFS Developer Summit]], November 2014.
* [http://www.open-zfs.org/w/images/c/ca/Matt_Ahrens_-_OpenZFS_-_Europe.pdf slides] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk1czZs6vkQ&index=5&list=PLaUVvul17xScyhIYmGjaNaGSWI49qyf6K video] of my keynote at the OpenZFS European Conference, May 2014.
* [http://www.open-zfs.org/w/images/4/46/Delphix_-_Introduction.pdf slides] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaRdzUOsieA&index=3&list=PLaUVvul17xScyhIYmGjaNaGSWI49qyf6K video] of my talk about how Delphix uses OpenZFS and contributes to the community, from the OpenZFS European Conference, May 2014.
* [http://www.slideshare.net/MatthewAhrens/openzfs-dotscale slides] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaS2Svis3dA video] of my talk about cloud storage at dotScale, May 2014.
* [http://www.slideshare.net/MatthewAhrens/openzfs-asiabsdcon slides] and associated [http://www.open-zfs.org/w/images/0/0f/AsiaBSDcon_paper.pdf paper] for my keynote presentation at AsiaBSDcon, March 2014
* [http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_05_14-bsdcanned_goods audio recording] and [http://www.slideshare.net/MatthewAhrens/openzfs-at-asiabsdcon-freebsd-developer-summit slides] from presentation at AsiaBSDcon developer summit, March 2014
* [http://www.slideshare.net/MatthewAhrens/open-zfs-devsummit slides] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3dMhpmQTrU&list=PLaUVvul17xSdWMBt5tAC8Hu7bbeWskD_q video] of my keynote at the [[OpenZFS_Developer_Summit_2013 | OpenZFS Developer Summit]], November 2013.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2vIdPmsnTI video] of OpenZFS Office Hours that I hosted, October 2013
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMVnPKhvUlE video] of presentation at [http://nosig.org/ NOSIG], October 2013
* Register [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/18/open_zfs_wielders_kick_off_truly_open_source_dev_group/ article] on OpenZFS, September 2013
* [http://cis01.uma.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk227.mp3 podcast interview] with Will Backman for BSDtalk, June 2013
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2DlNmnv6r0 video] of keynote at ZFS Day, October 2012


== Contact Info ==
== Contact Info ==
* email: '''''first'' dot ''last'' @ ''employer'' dot com''' or '''''first'' @ mahrens dot org'''
* email: '''matthew dot ahrens @ delphix dot com''' or '''matt @ mahrens dot org'''
* IRC: mahrens on [http://freenode.net/ FreeNode]
* IRC: mahrens on [http://freenode.net/ FreeNode]
* Location: San Francisco
* Location: San Francisco
* [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/matthew-ahrens/2/40/901 LinkedIn]
* [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/matthew-ahrens/2/40/901 LinkedIn]
* [http://blog.delphix.com/matt/ Blog]
* Current [https://www.delphix.com/taxonomy/term/53 blog], old Sun/Oracle [https://blogs.oracle.com/ahrens/ blog]
* Twitter: [https://twitter.com/mahrens1 @mahrens1]
* Twitter: [https://twitter.com/mahrens1 @mahrens1]

Revision as of 20:59, 9 September 2018

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Bio

Matt Ahrens co-founded the ZFS project at Sun Microsystems in 2001, designed and implemented major components of ZFS including snapshots and remote replication, and helped lead Sun's ZFS team for 9 years. Matt is now a software engineer at Delphix, where he leads a team working on ZFS for Delphix's database virtualization appliance.  He continues to develop ZFS code, as well as coordinating open-source ZFS development across companies and platforms.

Matt founded the OpenZFS community, a collaboration among FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, and illumos ZFS developers. He has presented at Sun Tech Days, the Open Storage Summit, BSDCan, LinuxCon, EuroBSDcon, AsiaBSDcon, and dotScale. He created the annual OpenZFS_Developer_Summit conference in 2013, and organizes it and delivers a keynote every year.

Matt advises several companies that use ZFS in their products, providing training and helping them design new features and performance enhancements for their specific use cases.

In his spare time, Matt enjoys woodworking, traveling, and working on dtrace.

Matt has a degree in Computer Science from Brown University.

Press / talks

  • video of my talk on Flexible Disk Use at BSDCAN, June 2018
  • slides and video of my talk on Flexible Disk Use at the ZFS User Conference, April 2018
  • slides and video from talk on OpenZFS Basics at SCALE16x, March 2018
  • slides from my talk on Improving the ZFS User-Kernel API with Channel Programs, at BSDCAN, June 2017
  • video of Q&A with Austin McChord, CEO of Datto, at the ZFS User Conference, March 2017.
  • video and slides from my lecture about Snapshots, Space Allocation, and RAID-Z at Brown University, March 2017 (alternate video of the same material from the ZFS User Conference)
  • video from my "History of ZFS" talk at MeetBSD, November 2016.
  • video and slides from my "State of the Union" talk at the OpenZFS Developer Summit, September 2016.
  • video and slides from my talk on ZFS Allocation Performance at BSDCAN, June 2016
  • video of my lecture on ZFS read and write code paths - a code walk-through. March 2016
  • video from my keynote at the OpenZFS Developer Summit, October 2015.
  • video from my presentation on ZFS send and receive at BSDCAN, June 2015
  • video from my presentation on ZFS send and receive at the OpenZFS European Conerence, May 2015
  • slides from my presentation on ZFS send and receive at AsiaBSDcon, March 2015.
  • slides and video of my keynote at the OpenZFS Developer Summit, November 2014.
  • slides and video of my keynote at the OpenZFS European Conference, May 2014.
  • slides and video of my talk about how Delphix uses OpenZFS and contributes to the community, from the OpenZFS European Conference, May 2014.
  • slides and video of my talk about cloud storage at dotScale, May 2014.
  • slides and associated paper for my keynote presentation at AsiaBSDcon, March 2014
  • audio recording and slides from presentation at AsiaBSDcon developer summit, March 2014
  • slides and video of my keynote at the OpenZFS Developer Summit, November 2013.
  • video of OpenZFS Office Hours that I hosted, October 2013
  • video of presentation at NOSIG, October 2013
  • Register article on OpenZFS, September 2013
  • podcast interview with Will Backman for BSDtalk, June 2013
  • video of keynote at ZFS Day, October 2012

Contact Info

  • email: matthew dot ahrens @ delphix dot com or matt @ mahrens dot org
  • IRC: mahrens on FreeNode
  • Location: San Francisco
  • LinkedIn
  • Current blog, old Sun/Oracle blog
  • Twitter: @mahrens1