Alan Robertson

Alan Robertson (W1) founded the High-Availability Linux (Linux-HA) project in 1998 and led the project for ten years; it has since become the Pacemaker project. He worked for SuSE for a year, then worked in IBM's Linux Technology Center for five years. Alan continues to work on Linux and UNIX systems for IBM on a variety of projects. His most recent open source project is the extremely scalable, discovery-driven Assimilation Monitoring Project.

Before joining SuSE, he was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs. He worked for Bell Labs for twenty-one years, in a variety of roles, among which were providing leading-edge computing support, writing software tools, and developing voicemail systems.