Bryan M. Cantrill (born December 1973) is an American

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who worked at

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and later at

Oracle Corporation Oracle Corporation is an American Multinational corporation, multinational computer technology company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Co-founded in 1977 in Santa Clara, California, by Larry Ellison, who remains executive chairman, Oracle was ...

following its acquisition of Sun. He left Oracle on July 25, 2010, to become the Vice President of Engineering at

Joyent Joyent Inc. is a software and services company based in San Francisco, California. Specializing in cloud computing, it markets infrastructure-as-a-service. On June 15, 2016, the company was acquired by Samsung Electronics. Services Triton, Joyen ...

, transitioning to Chief Technology Officer at

in April 2014, until his departure on July 31 of 2019. He is now the co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer company.

Career

Cantrill was born in Vermont, later moving to Colorado, where he attained the rank of

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. He studied

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Brown University Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...

, spending two summers at QNX Software Systems doing kernel development. Upon completing his B.Sc. in 1996, he immediately joined Sun Microsystems to work with Jeff Bonwick in the

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Performance Group. In 2005, Bryan Cantrill was named one of the 35 Top Young Innovators by ''

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'',

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's magazine. Cantrill was included in the

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list for his development of

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, a function of the OS Solaris 10 that provides a non-invasive means for

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tracing and diagnosis of

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. Sun technologies and technologists, including

and Cantrill, also received an

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Innovators Award that year. In 2006, "The DTrace trouble-shooting software from Sun was chosen as the Gold winner in ''

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''s 2006 Technology Innovation Awards contest." In 2008, Cantrill, Mike Shapiro and Adam Leventhal were recognized with the

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Software Tools User Group (STUG) award for "the provision of a significant enabling technology." Together with Shapiro and Leventhal, Cantrill founded Fishworks, a stealth project within Sun Microsystems which produced the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems. He left Oracle on July 25, 2010, to become the Vice President of Engineering at

. He announced his transition to being Chief Technology Officer at

in April 2014, and held that position until announcing his departure as of July 31 of 2019. He is now the co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer company. He was a member of the ACM Queue Editorial Board.

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