Adam Leventhal (programmer)

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Adam H Leventhal
Born1979
United States
Education Brown University (ScB)
OccupationSoftware Engineer at Oxide Computer Company
Known for DTrace
Website dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/

Adam Leventhal (born 1979) is an American software engineer, and one of the three authors of DTrace, a dynamic tracing facility in Solaris 10 which allows users to observe, debug and tune system behavior in real time. [1]

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Biography

Adam joined the Solaris kernel development team after graduating cum laude from Brown University in 2001 with his B.Sc. in Math and Computer Science. DTrace was made available to the public in November 2003, and has since been used to find opportunities for performance improvements in production environments. [2] In 2006, Adam and his DTrace colleagues were chosen Gold winners in The Wall Street Journal 's Technology Innovation Awards contest by a panel of judges representing industry as well as research and academic institutions. [3] A year after Sun Microsystems was acquired by Oracle Corp, Leventhal announced he was leaving the company. [4] He served as Chief Technology Officer at Delphix from 2010 to 2016. [5]

References

  1. ↑ "LinuxWorld - Speaker Bios". linuxworldexpo.com. Archived from the original on 2006-10-16. Retrieved 2008-01-11.
  2. ↑ "O'Reilly European Open Source Convention - 17–20 October 2005 - Amsterdam, the Netherlands". oreillynet.com.
  3. ↑ Totty, Michael (11 September 2006). "The Winners Are... - WSJ.com". WSJ.com.
  4. ↑ "Oracle loses another DTrace creator". H-online. 19 August 2010.
  5. ↑ "Delphix appoints new CEO – but hasn't filled vacant CTO spot". The Register. 16 April 2016.

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