Author

Phil Pokorny serves at the CTO for both Penguin Computing and Penguin Edge and is responsible for all aspects of hardware products. He reports to Dave Laurello, President of Intelligent Platform Solutions.

Mr. Pokorny joined the company in February of 2001 as an engineer, and steadily progressed through the organization by taking on more responsibility. He brings a wealth of engineering experience and customer insight to the design, development and support of Penguin products.

Prior to joining Penguin Computing, he spent 14 years in various engineering and system administration roles with Cummins, Inc. and Cummins Electronics. At Cummins, Pokorny participated in the development of internal network standards, deployed and managed a multisite network of multiprotocol routers and supported a diverse mix of office and engineering workers with a variety of server and desktop operating systems.

He has contributed code to Open Source projects, including the Linux kernel, lm_sensors and LCDproc.