Hans Reiser
reiser@ricochet.net
phone without voicemail: 510-482-5071
cell phone and voice mail: 510-459-4681
physical: 6979 Exeter Dr. Oakland, CA 94611

Educational Background

Entered UC Berkeley after completing the eighth grade, received a BA in Systematizing, which was an individual major. I had an advisor in the CS Department, and my senior thesis discussed differences in the philosophy of computer science and the physical sciences as illustrated by name space (file system) design issues. Courses focused on math, physics, operations research, economics.

Experience

File System Architect/Project Manager/Programmer

Current: Namesys, Hired a small team of programmers to implement the file system Reiserfs for Linux. This file system is based on balanced tree algorithms rather than block allocation. Primary architect, project manager, and one of the programmers. It has clear time performance advantages for large files, was both faster and slower in time according to the measure for files in the 2-20k range while showing clear space savings, and had clear advantages in both time and space for files below 1k in size compared to the current Linux file system ext2fs. (Ext2fs is considered by many to be the fastest of the block allocation based file systems for the benchmarks we used.) Second Beta due in May/June, 1998

8/93-4/96: Synopsys, Initially performed the in-depth cost/benefit, functional merit, and recommended standard configuration analysis of Unix and PC related hardware and software. I performed an extensive NFS file servers evaluation, as well as Solaris migration planning, IR Search Engine selection, Atria hardware performance tuning and modeling, and the system administration planning component of the transition to Solaris. Substantial involvement with WWW and backup planning. For the last year of my tenure at Synopsys I focused on assisting 400 developers in migrating to Clearcase using Multisite, and performing the hardware planning, tuning, and system administration of this migration. When I told one of the founders of the company that I was leaving, he arranged to more than double my salary to keep me, and this delayed my departure for some time, but eventually the draw of my file system project was too great for me to resist working on it full time despite the wonderful environment they had in the Advanced Technologies Group.

6/92-7/93: IBM Almaden Research Center,Exploratory Database Systems Group. C, AFS, NFS, Perl, all the standard Unix admin. stuff. I supported the Unix computing environment for 35 computer scientists, which means being the person folks can ask questions about getenv(), what compiler flag they are missing, explaining that the mysterious slaying of their process was due to insufficient paging space, etc. I was renewed for the next year, and I very much liked working there, but economic conditions did not make IBM competitive in pay raises.

7/90-7/91: Premenos, wrote communications agent for an EDI program for Premenos Corp. Installed and maintained the RS/6000s and Xstations which supported the development team. Trained operators to perform sys admin tasks. My letter of reference describes me as the hardest working member of the development team.

11/88-10/89: Accurate Information Systems, Member of Technical Staff at A.I.S., working on the Advanced Technologies Project for the Army Research and Development Center(~4000 users.) If it ran Unix, they had at least one of it. Revised the 5 year computer automation plan, performed technology scouting, did sundry systems integration work. Generated technical proposals and then client support for them.

5/88-11/88: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility. Proposed, solicited, and acquired a $400,000 Apollo workstation donation which I organized a facility for.

Honorary Distinction Interactive Art Prix Ars Electronica Linz Austria 1992, MTV News, CNN's Showbiz Today, IEEE Computer Graphics `95, IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications `95, IEEE Computers & Graphics `95, SIG-Multimedia `94, SIGGRAPH `91, SIGGRAPH `92, INTERACT `93 Amsterdam (a conference of SIGCHI and INTERCHI), CyberArts `91, CyberArts `92, Image du Futur `92 La Cite des Arts et des Nouvelles Technologies de Montreal, Tour of 12 German Universities in `92, Digital Be-In 1993 and 1995, Bronx Museum NY USA 1991, Verbum Journal of Aesthetics Dec 1991, IEEE Computer Graphics ``Art in Virtual Reality'' May 1992, CyberArts Published by Harper Freeman and Edited by Linda Jacobson Summer 1992, others. Art and Poetry

U.S. Citizen. I like to travel, and to do contract work. I can bring in other file system and balanced tree specialists as needed.