Greg A. Woods

Senior Partner @Planix, Inc

BC, CA

Planix is, and has been for some time now, in hibernation.A founding director and partner in Planix, Inc, a small systems consulting practice in Toronto, Ontario.Worked at all aspects of running and maintaining a small business, as well as at the same time of course working on projects for our clients.Planix\'s clients and projects over the years have spanned a very wide spectrum. Systems and network level work forms a common theme across all our business and almost always some aspect of the Internet has been involved. A significant portion of Planix business has been done with ISPs, including providing much of the initial technical support and systems for startup ISPs. Planix has been involved in one way or another with bringing the internet for the first time to a significant number of customers and companies in Southern Ontario.Primary focus was on systems programming and hardware/software integration, with some security analysis, network design, and troubleshooting, and emergency recovery operations. Also provided \"last resort\" support services for IT departments and support departments for various clients.Maintained custom SunOS and NetBSD releases used on sparc, alpha, and i386 servers at a variety of client sites. Customized and integrated applications for e-mail servers, web servers, web caching, firewalls, network and systems monitoring and performance analysis.Designed and developed C library and API for connecting subsystems used at ISPs with a global internet roaming accounting and billing interchange system, and provided training and porting for customers and partners around the world.Designed and wrote one of the first complete hardware monitoring chip drivers for FreeBSD and NetBSD.Designed and implemented new security features and improved system management tools for NetBSD, and have submitted many bug fixes and patches for NetBSD.

University of Calgary

Computer Science, Physics