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 Hubbard in 2010 | |
| Born | (1963-04-08)April 8, 1963 (age 61) |
| Occupation(s) | Sr Director, NVIDIA |
| Known for | FreeBSD,NextBSD, FreeNAS Corral |
Jordan K. Hubbard (born April 8, 1963) is an open source software developer, authoring software such as theArdent Window Manager and various otheropen source tools and libraries before co-founding theFreeBSD project[1] with Nate Williams and Rodney W. Grimes in 1993,[2] for which he contributed the initialFreeBSD Ports collection,package management system andsysinstall. In July 2001 Hubbard joinedApple Computer in the role of manager of the BSD technology group,[3] during which time he was one of the creators ofMacPorts. In 2005, his title was "Director of UNIX Technology"[4] and in October 2007, Hubbard was promoted to "Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies" at Apple where he remained until June 2013.[5]
On July 15, 2013, he becameCTO ofiXsystems where he also led theFreeNAS open source project.[6][7]
On March 24, 2017, he announced his plan to depart fromiXsystems and that he would be joining TwoPoreGuys, a Biotechnology company, as VP of Engineering.[8][9][10][11] From January 2019–April 2020 he was part of the Engineering Leadership team atUber and, as of April 2020, is currently Senior Director for GPU Compute Software atNvidia.[12]
On March 31, 1987 Hubbard executed anrwall command expecting it to send a message to every machine on the network atUniversity of California, Berkeley, where he headed the Distributed Unix Group. The command instead began broadcasting Hubbard's message to every machine on the internet and was stopped after Hubbard realised the message was being broadcast remotely after he received complaints from people atPurdue University andUniversity of Texas. Even though the command was terminated, it resulted in Hubbard receiving 743 messages and complaints.[13]
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