Bryan M. Cantrill is an engineer who worked at Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems

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 and later at Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...

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

Joyent

Joyent is a cloud computing software and services company based in San Francisco, California, since 2004. Joyent provides application virtualization....

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

Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America)

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. He studied computer science

Computer science

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 at Brown University

Brown University

Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...

, spending two summers at QNX

QNX

QNX is a commercial Unix-like real-time operating system, aimed primarily at the embedded systems market. The product was originally developed by Canadian company, QNX Software Systems, which was later acquired by Canadian BlackBerry-producer Research In Motion.-Description:As a microkernel-based...

 doing kernel development. Upon completing his B.Sc. in 1996, he immediately joined Sun Microsystems to work with Jeff Bonwick

Jeff Bonwick

Jeff Bonwick was a Sun Fellow at Sun Microsystems, later a Vice President at Sun and then a Senior Software Architect at Oracle until his departure from the company on 30 September 2010.He led the team which developed ZFS for Solaris....

 in the Solaris Performance Group.

In 2005 Bryan Cantrill was named one of the 35 Top Young Innovators by Technology Review

Technology Review

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, MIT's magazine. Cantrill was included in the TR35

TR35

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 list for his development of DTrace

DTrace

DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework created by Sun Microsystems for troubleshooting kernel and application problems on production systems in real time...

, a function of the OS

Operating system

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 Solaris 10 that provides a non-invasive means for real-time

Real-time computing

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 tracing

Tracing

Tracing may refer to:* Tracing , a process by which a one demonstrates the ownership of property, with the intent to be awarded a claim based on this information...

 and diagnosis of software. Sun technologies and technologists, including DTrace and Cantrill, also received an InfoWorld Innovators Award that year. In 2006, "The DTrace trouble-shooting software from Sun was chosen as the Gold winner in The Wall Street Journal's 2006 Technology Innovation Awards contest." In 2008, Cantrill, Mike Shapiro and Adam Leventhal were recognized with the USENIX

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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 is a member of the ACM Queue Editorial Board.

External links

• Bryan Cantrill's blog
• DTrace Review (Google Tech Talk August 15, 2007)
• "Have you ever kissed a girl?" Bryan Cantrill's famous response to Linux Kernel hacker David Miller
  David S. Miller
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