William C.
Details
Electronics, Programming
Oregon Polytechnic Institute
1987 : 1988
2021 : Present
BlueCat
Principal Cybersecurity Engineer
I am the President of the Board of Directors of The NetBSD Foundation. The NetBSD Foundation is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit in the state of Delaware, to maintain the NetBSD projects, protect copyright and patent assignments, and generate the fiscal resources and leadership necessary to fund technological advancements to all of our current and future projects.
NetBSD is one of the oldest and most experienced freely-distributed UNIX-like operating system that supports over 50 architectures spanning multiple generations of technology. Pkgsrc is a freely-distributed multiple architecture multiple operating system packaging system allowing both prebuilt or DIY source building on non-NetBSD systems. Our compatible binary emulation in NetBSD allows us to run software compiled from other operating systems, such as Linux, FreeBSD, AIX, and others depending on the compatibility of the architecture. The NetBSD project was formed in 1993 based originally off of 386BSD and added BSD 4.4 lite. It has since become a stedfast learning operating system designed with compatibility, security, and good design and code. Our users have included companies like Dell, Apple, and NASA.
Please visit our website at http : //NetBSD.org and consider participating as well as a tax-free contributions to the Foundation.
2015 :
The NetBSD Foundation
President
2015 :
The NetBSD Foundation
Director
Helped bootstrap the Amiga port. Ported kernel to an embedded PowerPC BriQ, some pkgsrc work. Administrated the NetBSD servers and created the Admin Team which manages the infrastructure we built. Was NeXT portmaster. Multi-cpu architecture support for pkgsrc in what was MacPKG for the Apple Macintosh (macppc, i386, amd64 architectures). Currently working with the security-team on handling security alerts and patch testing, and some private independent branches.
1993 :
The NetBSD Foundation
Security Team and Software Engineer
Custodial engineering that stems from designing and implementing customer billing and payment tracking, to new account creations and bring new hardware and software services online. Managing a small team to handle helpdesk and maintain all of the services we provide. Our services include webhosting personal and business sites, providing open-source mirroring for certain projects, all on a scalable custom configured multi-server with failover redundancy and extensive data backup.
We also own and run what was the #2 largest blogging site when blogging used to be the big thing and the layout left untouched, ironically called DeadJournal.com (a parody of LiveJournal.com) currently with almost 500,000 users running on an AWS configuration with multiple servers and MySQL database clusters.
1995 :
Warped Communications, Inc.
Chief Technology Officer / Founder
Skills
Apache, BSD, C, Coaching & Mentoring, Computer Forensics, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Crypto, Cyberpunk, Debugging, Device Drivers, Distributed Systems, DNS, Embedded Systems, Game Programming, Hacking, Hardware, Internet Services, iOS development, Kernel, Kernel Programming, Linux, MySQL, NetBSD, Network Administration, Networking, Network Security, Objective-C, Open Source, Open Source Development, Operating System Development, Operating Systems, Perl, Programming, Scalability, Security, Servers, Shell Scripting, Social Networking, Software Design, Software Development, Software Engineering, Software Project Management, System Administration, TCP/IP, Telecommunication Services, Trend Forecasting, Unix, Unix Shell Scripting, Version Control Tools, Web Services
About
I know a little about a lot of things, but I know a lot about little things. I am @Cryo, and I have been here for a long time working in various technology fields.
I’m doing DFIR, PSIRT, infosec and bitmoving thingies with a focus on scalability, disaster recovery, interested in blockchain, massive redundant data arrays, end to end security, QA/testing, and keeping data center and company (and people’s) data secure. I also mentor students in Google's Summer of Code for the past decade or so.
I'm currently the President and Chairperson of one of the oldest open source operating systems, NetBSD and its multi-OS packaging system, leading hundreds of developers coding tens of thousands of lines for over 50 separate architectures ranging from embedded to desktop. I run different vendor PSIRT teams and the coordinated releases, with fixes going to our test/QA team to confirm fixes, and on embargo lift, getting the fixes into the source code tree while having release engineering pushing the release out. I go to conferences in various places of the world and represent the project and coordinate face to face meetings and work on community building.
I have the expertise to build up and manage elite teams and herd kittens (even feral ones that don't like to work with others). I solve problems from a holistic view down to finding and squashing bugs. If I don’t know the answer, I am resourceful. I’ve seen things...
I am a Certified Scrum Master.
I am a veteran of the Usenet flame wars and a survivor of the DotCom crash.
I am currently working on an iOS game (TapNet.app) to spin it off. I have many years of experience in OSX/macOS and iOS UI/UX in Objective-C and using OpenGL.
See also: Intel SatisFAXtion, CSA 40/4 Magnum, CSA 12 Gauge, Macrosystems WarpEngine
keybase.io/cryo about.me/cryo pgp:0x10d1f5b3f97cc215
I am always looking for the next big exciting project to work on, with the right team of specialized people in a fully-funded company or start-up with great crazy ideas on changing how technology and humans connect.
Open for relocation.
A tour de force .. wait, is this thing still on?
See http://cryo.ws for a cover and resume.
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