Josef “Jeff” Sipek

Greetings from Nexenta

In case you missed it, back in mid-2011 I discovered Illumos and OpenIndiana. At that point, I already missed hacking on the (Linux) kernel. Based on my blahg posts [1,2], it shouldn’t surprise you that it didn’t take long before I wanted to hack on the Illumos kernel…and so I did.

If you ever contributed to an open source project in your free time while employed full-time, you understand that there’s only so much time you can devote to the open source project and therefore there is only so much you can do.

A couple of months ago, I decided to explore the possibility of working full-time on Illumos. There are only a handful of companies that visibly participate in the Illumos ecosystem, but their use of Illumos is pretty varied (from public clouds to virtualized databases to SAN/NAS appliances). As of this past Tuesday (Monday was a holiday), I’m at Nexenta. At least for now, I’m working remotely (from Ann Arbor) with the fine folks in the Wikipedia article: Lowell office. It feels great to work on open source again.

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