Author

Brent Welch is a senior staff software engineer at Google, where he works on their public cloud system. He was Chief Technology Officer at Panasas and has also worked at Xerox-PARC and Sun Microsystems Laboratories. Brent has experience building software systems from the device driver level up through operating systems, network services, user applications, and graphical user interfaces. While getting his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, Brent designed and built the Sprite distributed file system. While at Panasas he helped build the PanFS cluster file system. He is the creator of the TclHttpd web server, the exmh email user interface, and the author of Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk.