Garrett has over 2 decades of experience building technologies for networking, systems, and storage, and leading technical teams to success.

He is most widely known as the founder of illumos, and the maintainer of nanomsg, but has developed software used in FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, ZFS and others. He is the principal author of NNG, mangos (a compatible system written in pure Go) and a number of other open source projects.

Garrett currently lives in North San Diego county, with his beautiful wife, and their two sons, two dogs, and one snake.