Colorado State University

Michigan Technological University

Senior Director Advanced Software Development, Hewlett Packard Labs at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

StarlingX.io an Open Infrastructure Foundation Project

Technical Steering Committee

The Yocto Project, A Linux Foundation Project

Treasurer

Wind River

Director of Open Source, Office of the CTO

My team is responsible for the system software innovation of HPE’s ground-breaking Memory-Driven Computing (MDC) paradigm. Described as the largest and most complex research project in our company’s history, MDC transforms computing to address Big Data critical to solving some of the world’s biggest challenges in education, healthcare, transportation, science and business. We are innovating across new fabric technology, firmware, operating systems, and system software as well as in methods to accelerate industry access and adoption.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Senior Director Advanced Software Development, Hewlett Packard Labs

Responsible for creating an HPE Linux distribution capable of supporting HPE's Cloud strategy and various HPE Labs innovation programs such as The Machine and secure container platforms.

Led the creation of an Open Source Linux distribution, HPE Linux based on Debian, allowing HPE to fully contribute to and consume from an open distribution, reducing owned investments, while focusing its efforts on mission-critical core development. Created first release within 3 months, enabling HPE to grow its Helion and HPE contributed revenue to more than $200M.

Led the architectural development and implementation of Linux for “The Machine,” the operating system for HPE’s ground-breaking memory-centric computing paradigm. My team was responsible for the design, development, test, and integration of the open-source OS, as well as managing the cross-team needs and dependencies of >80 globally-dispersed developers.  Still in the technology research and proof-of-concept phase, demonstrated highly-performant large-scale application to press and customers on time, on-scope, and on-budget.

Addressed cyber-security in Open Source code by leading the implementation of capabilities such as the eXclusive Page Fault Ownership (XPFO) in the HPE-modified HPE Linux kernel, preventing common kernel attacks and significantly improves security in the Cloud architecture.  Currently working the XPFO kernel changes into kernel.org for industry availability.

Sr. Director R&D HPE Linux

Responsible for the creation and operation of HP Software's private cloud and delivery of cloud services to meet the technology demands of HP Software's global organization.

Re-engineered IT service delivery for entire HP Software development community. Architected and built hub-and-satellite infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) model to support global R&D teams’ DevOps needs while reducing R&D infrastructure footprint and capital expense. Result:  Transitioned HP Software R&D to IaaS, transforming from 50 R&D data centers to a final state of 6 global hubs – two of them brand new – and 12 enhanced satellites with a global support capability.  Centralized equipment planning and procurement to achieve cost reduction goals and stabilize budget swings.  Reduced capital liability by >30%, reduced footprint by >30%, improved quarterly variance of $200M CAPEX budget within an accelerated timeframe.

Senior Manager, Global Site Operations and Shared Lab Services

Created and implemented a long term IO and Storage roadmap that accelerated emerging technologies to market and expanded Partner solutions.

R&D Manager IO and Storage for Business Critical Solutions

I recruited organizational membership to a critical mass of server and chip vendors, community developers, commercial applications developers, and commercial Linux distribution vendors to create broader, industry adoption of the Linux Standards Base. I also helped establish programs and timelines supporting the Linux Foundation's vision of creating a standard definition of Linux beyond the Standard; for example, validation and certification services and industry procurement policy programs.

The Linux Foundation

Board of Directors

Worked within the consortium leadership to create an environment that technically connected to and participated within the open source community to implement Linux functionality supporting Enterprise and Telecommunications commercial needs in a manner consistent with open source community values and behaviors.

OSDL

Led HP's Linux and Open Source Strategy development and execution from incubation to recognized market and industry leadership. Lead and collaborated on cross-industry leadership teams focused on growing the overall commercial growth and acceptance of Linux and Open Source. Established and lead HP's Open Source and Linux Customer Advisory Council. 

Managed a global R&D team; US, India, China, Australia, Canada, that contributed to the open source development of key technologies and integrated them into Linux distributions supported by HP server and storage platforms.

Concieved and implemented HP's Open Source Review Board; used internally to assure open source license compliance and externally to consult with partners and customers.

Director, R&D Open Source and Linux

Worked with the leadership team to create an open source community research environment; primarily consisting of universities, focused on high performance computing, open source, and Itanium platforms.

Stephen Geary