Btrfs Co-Maintainer Josef Bacik Leaves Meta, Joins Anthropic for Infrastructure Work
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Summary
Josef Bacik, a long-time Btrfs co-maintainer and Linux kernel developer, is leaving Meta after years of employment. He announced his departure and revealed he will be joining Anthropic to help scale their infrastructure, leveraging his decades of kernel and systems experience. He is also stepping back from Linux kernel development as his primary job.
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Next week I start a new chapter, I will be joining Anthropic to help them scale out their infrastructure and put my decades of kernel and systems exp
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