After receiving a B.S. in Computer Science from Brown University in 2007, he started working at Sun Microsystems in the Fishworks group to help build the Sun Storage 7000 series of storage appliances, focusing on Microsoft interoperability and data protocols for both file and block access. Since joining Joyent in 2010, he has worked both on Joyent’s cloud services around ZFS and storage, as well operating system features to support those services.