Jeff Bonwick
American software engineer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jeff Bonwick invented and led development of the ZFS file system,[1] which was used in Oracle Corporation's ZFS storage products as well as startups including Nexenta, Delphix, Joyent, and Datto, Inc.[2][3] Bonwick is also the inventor of slab allocation,[4] which is used in many operating systems including MacOS and Linux, and the LZJB compression algorithm.
His roles included Sun Fellow,[5][6] Sun Storage CTO,[7] and Oracle vice president.[8]