Bob Bretl
Bob Bretl is Principal Engineer at GemTalk Systems.
Bob Bretl was founder and Principal Engineer at GemStone Systems Inc.
Contribution to ODBMS.ORG
Bio
Bob has worked on the GemStone/S products since 1982. He started his career at Tektronix in 1975 working in the SPS Engineering group.
Bob has developed many of the key components of the GemStone/S architecture. He managed the core engineering team for the GemStone/J development, developed and supported the Facets product, and provided the inspiration for and lead the development of the first release of the GemFire product. Currently Bob is working on multi-threading many of the core algorithms to provide added scalability for the GemStone/S product.
Bob is the co-author on several papers and the co-inventor of 3 patents on GemStone/S’s OODBMS technology and 5 of the patents in the GemFire technology. He earned his BS in Mathematics from Carroll College in Wisconsin and his MS in Computer Science from Iowa State University.