Todd Fries
Owner at OpenBSD
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTodd Fries is an experienced UNIX and OpenBSD specialist with 26 years designing secure network architectures, IPSec VPN interop, fail-over firewalling, and mail/security stacks for clients via his Free Daemon Consulting firm. An active OpenBSD developer since the late 1990s, he brings deep systems-level expertise and a commitment to free software solutions while growing his business in Oklahoma City. His hands-on contributions include low-level fixes and logging improvements to notable projects such as the Bochs x86 emulator, reflecting real-world debugging of OS-level input and panic issues. Todd combines operator-grade pragmatism with a principled focus on freedom-respecting software, making him adept at solving thorny interoperability and security problems for production environments.
26 years of coding experience
Missouri University of Science and Technology
English
Github Skills (7)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
emulation10
x8610
logging9
debugging9
openbsd7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bochs-emu/Bochs
May 2001 - Nov 2001
Bochs - Cross Platform x86 Emulator Project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:54 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Todd contributed to the Bochs emulator project by fixing bugs and implementing features related to the x86 architecture emulation. The user's work included addressing a panic in OpenBSD related to keyboard input and adding logging improvements. Furthermore, the user updated and refined the logging output and corrected errors in the code.
bochsx86-emulator
toddfries/OpenBSD-bin-patches
Jun 2008 - Jul 2014
Contributions:157 commits in 6 years 1 month
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