Presenter

Brent Welch is a senior staff software engineer at Google. Before that, he was Chief Technology Officer at Panasas and has also worked at Xerox-PARC and Sun Microsystems Laboratories. He has experience building software systems from the device driver level up through network servers, user applications, and graphical user interfaces. While getting his PhD at UC Berkeley, he designed and built the Sprite distributed file system. He is the creator of the TclHttpd web server, the exmh email user interface, and the author of Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk.