Adam Leventhal (born 1979 in the
United States
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ...
) is an American
software engineer
Software engineering is a branch of both computer science and engineering focused on designing, developing, testing, and maintaining software applications. It involves applying engineering principles and computer programming expertise to develop ...
, and one of the three authors of
DTrace
DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework originally created by Sun Microsystems for troubleshooting kernel and application problems on production systems in real time.
Originally developed for Solaris, it has since been released un ...
, a dynamic tracing facility in
Solaris
Solaris is the Latin word for sun.
It may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Literature, television and film
* ''Solaris'' (novel), a 1961 science fiction novel by Stanisław Lem
** ''Solaris'' (1968 film), directed by Boris Nirenburg
** ''Sol ...
10 which allows users to observe, debug and tune system behavior in real time. Available to the public since November 2003, DTrace has since been used to find opportunities for performance improvements in production environments. Adam joined the Solaris
kernel development team after graduating ''
cum laude
Latin honors are a system of Latin phrases used in some colleges and universities to indicate the level of distinction with which an academic degree has been earned. The system is primarily used in the United States. It is also used in some Sout ...
'' from
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 ' ...
in 2001 with his
B.Sc. in Math and Computer Science. In 2006, Adam and his DTrace colleagues were chosen Gold winners in
The Wall Street Journal
''The Wall Street Journal'' (''WSJ''), also referred to simply as the ''Journal,'' is an American newspaper based in New York City. The newspaper provides extensive coverage of news, especially business and finance. It operates on a subscriptio ...
's Technology Innovation Awards contest by a panel of judges representing industry as well as research and academic institutions. A year after Sun Microsystems was acquired by Oracle Corp, Leventhal announced he was leaving the company. He served as
Chief Technology Officer at Delphix from 2010 to 2016.
References
Articles
*
*
*
*
External links
Adam Leventhal's blog on dtrace.orgAdam Leventhal's blog from Sun, now hosted by OracleOpen Solaris CommunityThe Scoble Show interviews DTrace's creatorsInterview with Adam Leventhal in the San Francisco ChronicleA ZFS developer’s analysis of the good and bad in Apple’s new APFS file system
American computer programmers
American computer scientists
Open source people
Free software programmers
Living people
Solaris people
Brown University alumni
1979 births
{{Compu-bio-stub