Steve Kleiman joined NetApp in April 1996. He is currently senior vice president and chief scientist and is responsible for setting future technology directions for the company. Kleiman has extensive experience designing and developing UNIX® and workstation architecture.
He began his career in UNIX development in 1977 at Bell Telephone Laboratories, where he helped develop the first x86-based UNIX product. Kleiman then moved to Sun Microsystems, where he worked from 1984 to 1996 as a distinguished engineer and chief architect of clustered UNIX systems. As chief technologist for Sun's Interactive Services Group, he designed the company's first video server product line. Kleiman was also lead architect for multithreading and multiprocessing in Solaris™ and is a member of the POSIX Pthreads committee. He developed the Vnodes file system interface and was a member of the original NFS development team at Sun. Kleiman was the project leader of the original port of SunOS to SPARC.
He received a master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1978 and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977.