Steve Kleiman

Who is Steve Kleiman?

Steve Kleiman joined Network Appliance in April 1996. He is currently senior

vice president and chief scientist and is responsible for setting future

technology directions for the company. Kleiman has designed and developed UNIX

and workstation architecture for 22 years. He began his career in UNIX

development at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1977, where he helped develop the

first x86-based UNIX product. Kleiman then moved to Sun Microsystems, where he

worked from 1984 to 1996 as a Distinguished Engineer and chief architect of

clustered UNIX systems. As chief technologist for Sun's Interactive Services

Group, he designed the company's first video server product line. Kleiman was

also lead architect for multithreading and multiprocessing in Solaris and is a

member of the POSIX Pthreads committee. He developed the Vnodes file system

interface and was a member of the original NFS development team at Sun. Kleiman

was the project leader of the original port of SunOS to SPARC. He

received a master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in

1978 and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from

the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977.