Bryan Cantrill

Bryan Cantrill
Born	Vermont, United States
Occupation(s)	Software engineer, technology executive
Years active	1996–present
Known for	DTrace, Fishworks, Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems
Notable work	Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company; CTO of Joyent; contributions at Sun Microsystems and Oracle Corporation

Bryan McDowell Cantrill (born December 1973) is an American software engineer recognized for his contributions at Sun Microsystems and subsequently at Oracle Corporation following Oracle's acquisition of Sun. He departed from Oracle in July 2010 to assume the position of Vice President of Engineering at Joyent, where he was promoted to Chief Technology Officer in April 2014, a capacity he maintained until July 2019. Presently, he is the co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company.

Career

Originally from Vermont, Cantrill later relocated to Colorado. He pursued computer science at Brown University, earning his ScB in 1996 before joining Sun Microsystems to collaborate with Jeff Bonwick within the Solaris Performance Group.

In 2005, Technology Review recognized Cantrill as one of the 35 Top Young Innovators for his creation of DTrace, a dynamic tracing framework embedded in Solaris 10 that facilitates real-time, non-intrusive software diagnostics. That same year, both Sun Microsystems and Cantrill were honored with an InfoWorld Innovators Award. The following year, DTrace received the Gold distinction in The Wall Street Journal’s Technology Innovation Awards. In 2008, Cantrill, alongside Mike Shapiro and Adam Leventhal, was awarded by the USENIX Software Tools User Group for their impactful work.

Together with Shapiro and Leventhal, Cantrill co-established Fishworks, a confidential Sun Microsystems initiative responsible for developing the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems.

After his exit from Oracle in 2010, Cantrill joined Joyent as Vice President of Engineering and advanced to CTO in 2014, steering the company’s engineering direction until his departure in 2019. Subsequently, he co-founded Oxide Computer Company, concentrating on pioneering computing technologies.

Additionally, he contributed as a member of the ACM Queue Editorial Board.

Articles

• Bryan Cantrill (2006-02-01). "Hidden in Plain Sight". ACM Queue, 4(1), 26–36. doi:10.1145/1117389.1117401
• Bryan Cantrill, Jeff Bonwick (2008-09-01). "Real-World Concurrency". ACM Queue, 6(5), 16–25. doi:10.1145/1454456.1454462
• Bryan M. Cantrill, Michael W. Shapiro, Adam H. Leventhal (2004-06-10). "Dynamic Instrumentation of Production Systems". Proceedings of the 2004 USENIX Annual Technical Conference.
• Bryan M. Cantrill, Thomas W. Doeppner (1996-08-15). "ThreadMon: A Tool for Monitoring Multithreaded Program Performance". 30th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) Volume 1.

External links

• Bryan Cantrill's blog
• DTrace Review – Google Tech Talks, 2007-08-15