Brendan Gregg

Brendan Gregg is a computer engineer known for his work on computing performance. He works for Intel, and previously worked at Netflix, Sun Microsystems, Oracle Corporation, and Joyent. He was born in Newcastle, New South Wales and graduated from the University of Newcastle, Australia.

In November, 2013, he was awarded the LISA Outstanding Achievement Award "For contributions to the field of system administration, particularly groundbreaking work in systems performance analysis methodologies." He investigates and writes about Linux performance on his blog. Provided by Wikipedia